Hello again, Yesterday I had a question on pattern matching. A couple of people responded with very useful information. After some finagling, I got my rudimentary code to work. I'm a PhD student studying computational linguistics without any formal programming training. While there are various modules that can be applied to my questions, our professor wants us to manually code things so we understand the wider problems of computational linguistics. With that, here is what I'm trying to do.
In a given file, I believe it was XML originally, insert <s> at the beginning of every sentence and </s> at the end of every sentence. So far, I've got the following. The output is in *bold*. $hello = "This is some sample text."; $hello =~ s/^../<s>/gi; $hello =~ s/..$/<\/s>/gi; print "$hello\n"; *<s>is is some sample tex</s>* * * I can see why this is happening. I'm telling the program to do exactly what it did. But what I want the output to look like is this. *<s> This is some sample text.</s>* * * Any comments are very appreciated. This is a very helpful crowd. Cheers. Zach -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Zachary S. Brooks PhD Student in Second Language Acquisition and Teaching (SLAT) The University of Arizona - http://www.coh.arizona.edu/slat/ Graduate Associate in Teaching - Department of English M.A. Applied Linguistics - University of Massachusetts Boston ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
