Scott wrote:
On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 09:58:56AM -0700, Ron Smith wrote:
Well, here are my results (where test.pl was the file I cut and pasted
into the original email):
[0 ~/string/spl]$ perl ./test.pl
thumb pick up far little finger string
thumb pick up top far outer little finger string
thumb move under near forefinger string, pick up center near inner little finger string
thumb pick up near middle forefinger string
thumb move under near forefinger string, pick up center near inner little finger string (Yucch!)
Oops, my bad. I didn't copy "package SFNParse;". Makes all the
difference...
Fundamentally you need to decide if white-space is part of your
grammar.
As is evident from my question, it is.
No, see that is the point, it is not "evident" as there is more than one
way to do it, and one of those ways may not really require white
space.
We WANT white space. This is the way we want to do it. How do we do
it? That was the question.
NO, we *don't* want the white space, if we can avoid it.
Hmmm. Is it 'together' or 'to get her'? Who is she? Who's on first?
Touché.
Isthatreallyhowyoureadtext?IfsothenIcanreallysaveawholelotofwearandtearonmythumbsbynotbotheringtoeverpressthespacebaronthiskeyboard!Thankyouverymuchforthishelp,Iwilltreasureitalways.Wasthata'spacebar'ora'spacebaron'?Whocares,asthereisnospace.Wewantspacescanyoutellushoworisitjustnotapossibility?
Originally, I debated whether or not to respond to this in the above,
without any white space.
I've proven it to myself. Above run _was_ done in emacs. (Is there any
other editor?) Sorry it doesn't seem to work out on your setup....
No, there is no other editor. At least you belong to the True Religion.
If anyone on this list can address the question of how best to attack
input as a series of space-separated tokens
insteadofasteadystreamofcharacters, please let me know....
How ironic that I am the only one responding...
Thanks,
Scott.
OK, there is more than one way to do it.
Way number one:
lat: ("i" | "o" | /m\b/) {$SFNParse::abbrevs{$item[1]};}
.....................^.^^^
forces a "break", usually with white space given your grammar. Doing
this gives:
thumb pick up far little finger string
thumb pick up top far outer little finger string
thumb move under near forefinger string, pick up center near inner
little finger string
thumb pick up near forefinger string, move under center near inner
little finger string (this is now right - maybe?)
thumb move under near forefinger string, pick up center near inner
little finger string (Yucch! But it parses....)
Which I think is what you want. (You never *did* say what you were
looking *for*. So I'm guessing here.
Way number two is:
lat: ("i" | "o" | "m" ...!rel_move ) {$SFNParse::abbrevs{$item[1]};}
which is the "lookahead" I mentioned previously.
Now note that it *still* works,
andevenworksinyournowhitespacecasethatyousodetest:
1 pu 5f
thumb pick up far little finger string
1 pu 5tfo
thumb pick up top far outer little finger string
1 mu 2n pu 5cni
thumb move under near forefinger string, pick up center near inner
little finger string
1 pu 2n mu 5cni # this is now right
thumb pick up near forefinger string, move under center near inner
little finger string (this is wrong)
1pu2nmu5cni # this is the no white space case
thumb pick up near forefinger string, move under center near inner
little finger string (this is wrong)
1mu2npu5cni # Yucch! But it parses....
thumb move under near forefinger string, pick up center near inner
little finger string (Yucch! But it parses....)
Noticethatwhitespacehasnothingtodowithitsavingwearandtearonboththespacebaraswellasyourthumb.
