I have to remove punctuation so that I can look in a dictionary to list all possible
completions of the english word: "te*t".
ie. teat teet tent test text
If I leave the punctuation in, there will be no dictionary matches on "te*t,".
Is that clearer now?
Lonya
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On Mon, 18 Jun 2001 06:07:58
Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
>On Sun, Jun 17, 2001 at 07:35:06PM -0700, Lonya wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I could use some help. I'm trying to retain punctuation in sentences
>> when doing a spell check.
>>
>> Say I have a line like this:
>> This *s a te*t, this *s only a te*t.
>>
>> And I'd like to replace "te*t," with "test," after a dictionary
>> lookup. Well, I can split out the punctuation easily enough, but I
>> don't know how to join it back in later.
>
>Why do you have to remove punctuation in the first place ?
>
> % cat hello.pl
>
> $a = "t*st";
> print "$a\n";
> $a =~ s/\*/e/;
> print "$a\n";
>
> % perl hello.pl
>
> t*st
> test
>
>-giorgos
>
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