100% untested, but you get the idea:
s = "The project is done.";
strings = [
"and dinna spare the whip",
"and I sure am handsome",
...
]
start = 0;
while (true) {
// any . ? ! preceded by a letter and followed by a space
start = REFind("[a-zA-Z][.?!]( |$)", s, start);
if (start == 0) {
break; // no match
}
if (randRange(1, 20) EQ 1) { // 5% chance
rs = strings[randRange(1, arrayLen(strings))];
insert(", " & rs, s, start + 1);
start += len(rs) + 4;
}
}
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 10:15 PM, Phillip Vector
<vec...@mostdeadlygame.com> wrote:
>
> Hey people. I'm working on a filter to put in some random text into my
> pages. For example...
>
> The project is done.
>
> Becomes
>
> The project is done, and dinna spare the whip!
>
> (I think some of you know why I am doing this). :)
>
> Anyway, I don't want to have it appear after EVERY period or ! or ?..
> I'd like to randomly put it (say, 5% chance every sentence).
>
> I'm thinking about looping over the text, character by character. When
> it finds a period, it "rolls the dice" and perhaps does the
> replacement based on the last few characters before the period. Then
> keeps going.
>
> Does anyone have a less convoulted way of doing this (or something I
> can plug and play into it)?
>
>
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