On Wed, 05 Dec 2001, J Smith wrote:
>
> After seeing my name in lights on the weekly PHP summary, I decided to go
> back into that Porter extension I had wrote about earlier and clean things
> up a bit.
>
> I stripped out all of the C++ stuff to make it a bit of an easier fit with
> PHP's C code (and it seems to be running slightly faster to boot).
>
> For now, it can only stem English language words, but after reading some
> interesting work by Dr. Porter at snowball.sourceforge.com, I'm thinking
> I'll start adding more languages soon. (Most notably, since I work on a
> Canadian web application, Francais is forthcoming.)
>
> For now, the prototype of the lone function in the extension is
>
> string porter(string word)
>
> which takes a word, uppercases it, removes and suffixes and returns the
> word's stem, or "-1" on any sort of failure. (I'm thinking just to return
> the word itself, uppercased and unchanged if there's some sort of failure
> -- comments?)
Why not return FALSE?
-Andrei
"This isn't right. This isn't even wrong."
-- Wolfgang Pauli
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