RE: [Flashcoders] How to handle String the best way
Thanks Steven! Regards Cor -Original Message- From: flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com [mailto:flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com] On Behalf Of Steven Sacks Sent: donderdag 22 juli 2010 23:43 To: Flash Coders List Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] How to handle String the best way http://www.regular-expressions.info/ ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Geen virus gevonden in het binnenkomende-bericht. Gecontroleerd door AVG - www.avg.com Versie: 9.0.851 / Virusdatabase: 271.1.1/3020 - datum van uitgifte: 07/21/10 20:36:00 ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
RE: [Flashcoders] How to handle String the best way
I found this one, so maybe you are interested too: http://lawrence.ecorp.net/inet/samples/regexp-intro.php -Original Message- Sent: donderdag 22 juli 2010 23:43 To: Flash Coders List Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] How to handle String the best way http://www.regular-expressions.info/ ___ ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
RE: [Flashcoders] How to handle String the best way
Not entirely sure if i understand what you want to do, but you could use a regular expression to strip out any punctuation or unwanted characters. String.split() breaks a string into an array of strings by using a specified delimiter which could be a space in this situation, so each word is an element in an array. Apply this process to both your strings and you end up with two arrays which should be easy to compare words and cycle through all the elements. Hope that helps, but I've probably misunderstood what you want to do! David From: c...@chello.nl To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2010 09:46:58 +0200 Subject: [Flashcoders] How to handle String the best way Hi List, I am trying to find how to best compare 2 strings(word by word). I have 2 texts, one fully written and one abbreviated. The texts have exactly the same amount of words and they are in the same order. So in the text field one word is highlighted. The user has to fill in the abbreviation of the text(word by word). The user fills in his translation and ENTERS to confirm. And then the app has to compare the words. He can choose to practice from abbreviation to fully written words or vice versa. So what is the best way to do this, keeping in mind that special characters (like .,:;! space) must not be judged. Any idea is welcome. TIA Cor ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders _ http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/19780/direct/01/ Do you have a story that started on Hotmail? Tell us now___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
RE: [Flashcoders] How to handle String the best way
Thanks David. I think you understood exactly what I want. The String.split() was also what I had in mind, but I don't know how to do a regular expression to strip out any punctuation or unwanted characters. Do you have an example of such action? -Original Message- From: flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com [mailto:flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com] On Behalf Of David Hunter Sent: donderdag 22 juli 2010 14:50 To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] How to handle String the best way Not entirely sure if i understand what you want to do, but you could use a regular expression to strip out any punctuation or unwanted characters. String.split() breaks a string into an array of strings by using a specified delimiter which could be a space in this situation, so each word is an element in an array. Apply this process to both your strings and you end up with two arrays which should be easy to compare words and cycle through all the elements. Hope that helps, but I've probably misunderstood what you want to do! David From: c...@chello.nl To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2010 09:46:58 +0200 Subject: [Flashcoders] How to handle String the best way Hi List, I am trying to find how to best compare 2 strings(word by word). I have 2 texts, one fully written and one abbreviated. The texts have exactly the same amount of words and they are in the same order. So in the text field one word is highlighted. The user has to fill in the abbreviation of the text(word by word). The user fills in his translation and ENTERS to confirm. And then the app has to compare the words. He can choose to practice from abbreviation to fully written words or vice versa. So what is the best way to do this, keeping in mind that special characters (like .,:;! space) must not be judged. Any idea is welcome. TIA Cor ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders _ http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/19780/direct/01/ Do you have a story that started on Hotmail? Tell us now___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Geen virus gevonden in het binnenkomende-bericht. Gecontroleerd door AVG - www.avg.com Versie: 9.0.851 / Virusdatabase: 271.1.1/3020 - datum van uitgifte: 07/21/10 20:36:00 ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] How to handle String the best way
Can you give us two actual String samples, of text A and text B, that you're trying to compare? .m On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 3:46 AM, Cor c...@chello.nl wrote: Hi List, I am trying to find how to best compare 2 strings(word by word). I have 2 texts, one fully written and one abbreviated. The texts have exactly the same amount of words and they are in the same order. So in the text field one word is highlighted. The user has to fill in the abbreviation of the text(word by word). The user fills in his translation and ENTERS to confirm. And then the app has to compare the words. He can choose to practice from abbreviation to fully written words or vice versa. So what is the best way to do this, keeping in mind that special characters (like .,:;! space) must not be judged. Any idea is welcome. TIA Cor ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] How to handle String the best way
Hi, Something like /(\w)+)/gi or /([a-zA-Z])+/gi if you are being strict on just having letters. You can experiment with Grant Skinners RegExr tool - Google that cos I have no link :) Glen On 22/07/2010 14:10, Cor wrote: Thanks David. I think you understood exactly what I want. The String.split() was also what I had in mind, but I don't know how to do a regular expression to strip out any punctuation or unwanted characters. Do you have an example of such action? -Original Message- From: flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com [mailto:flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com] On Behalf Of David Hunter Sent: donderdag 22 juli 2010 14:50 To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] How to handle String the best way Not entirely sure if i understand what you want to do, but you could use a regular expression to strip out any punctuation or unwanted characters. String.split() breaks a string into an array of strings by using a specified delimiter which could be a space in this situation, so each word is an element in an array. Apply this process to both your strings and you end up with two arrays which should be easy to compare words and cycle through all the elements. Hope that helps, but I've probably misunderstood what you want to do! David From: c...@chello.nl To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2010 09:46:58 +0200 Subject: [Flashcoders] How to handle String the best way Hi List, I am trying to find how to best compare 2 strings(word by word). I have 2 texts, one fully written and one abbreviated. The texts have exactly the same amount of words and they are in the same order. So in the text field one word is highlighted. The user has to fill in the abbreviation of the text(word by word). The user fills in his translation and ENTERS to confirm. And then the app has to compare the words. He can choose to practice from abbreviation to fully written words or vice versa. So what is the best way to do this, keeping in mind that special characters (like .,:;! space) must not be judged. Any idea is welcome. TIA Cor ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders _ http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/19780/direct/01/ Do you have a story that started on Hotmail? Tell us now___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Geen virus gevonden in het binnenkomende-bericht. Gecontroleerd door AVG - www.avg.com Versie: 9.0.851 / Virusdatabase: 271.1.1/3020 - datum van uitgifte: 07/21/10 20:36:00 ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
RE: [Flashcoders] How to handle String the best way
I can't publish the actual strings, because they contain military issues. So I will have to create some fake strings. But mainly every full text (our max is 800 characters) can be used and every abbreviation can be 'fake', like the this: Full: These words are the text at its full length. I will write a second sentence here! Short: These wrds are txt at its f len. I will wr a sec sent here! One thing to know is that in military abbreviation, we do not use dots like in normal writing. -Original Message- From: flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com [mailto:flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com] On Behalf Of Matt S. Sent: donderdag 22 juli 2010 15:16 To: Flash Coders List Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] How to handle String the best way Can you give us two actual String samples, of text A and text B, that you're trying to compare? .m On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 3:46 AM, Cor c...@chello.nl wrote: Hi List, I am trying to find how to best compare 2 strings(word by word). I have 2 texts, one fully written and one abbreviated. The texts have exactly the same amount of words and they are in the same order. So in the text field one word is highlighted. The user has to fill in the abbreviation of the text(word by word). The user fills in his translation and ENTERS to confirm. And then the app has to compare the words. He can choose to practice from abbreviation to fully written words or vice versa. So what is the best way to do this, keeping in mind that special characters (like .,:;! space) must not be judged. Any idea is welcome. TIA Cor ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Geen virus gevonden in het binnenkomende-bericht. Gecontroleerd door AVG - www.avg.com Versie: 9.0.851 / Virusdatabase: 271.1.1/3020 - datum van uitgifte: 07/21/10 20:36:00 ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
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In the end though, aren't you really checking each answer not against the abbreviation but against a correct answer, eg if the abbreviation is: sec and the correct answer is second and the user writes section as their answer, that would be incorrect. But if you compared sec to section, you will still get a match on the letters for sec/sec. So wouldnt you still need to tie the correct answer to the abbreviation, and compare the users response to that, in other words skip over the abbreviation and compare the answer to the correct word that's tied to the abbreviation? I'm probably completely misunderstanding what you're trying to do :) .m .m On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 9:36 AM, Cor c...@chello.nl wrote: I can't publish the actual strings, because they contain military issues. So I will have to create some fake strings. But mainly every full text (our max is 800 characters) can be used and every abbreviation can be 'fake', like the this: Full: These words are the text at its full length. I will write a second sentence here! Short: These wrds are txt at its f len. I will wr a sec sent here! One thing to know is that in military abbreviation, we do not use dots like in normal writing. -Original Message- From: flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com [mailto:flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com] On Behalf Of Matt S. Sent: donderdag 22 juli 2010 15:16 To: Flash Coders List Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] How to handle String the best way Can you give us two actual String samples, of text A and text B, that you're trying to compare? .m On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 3:46 AM, Cor c...@chello.nl wrote: Hi List, I am trying to find how to best compare 2 strings(word by word). I have 2 texts, one fully written and one abbreviated. The texts have exactly the same amount of words and they are in the same order. So in the text field one word is highlighted. The user has to fill in the abbreviation of the text(word by word). The user fills in his translation and ENTERS to confirm. And then the app has to compare the words. He can choose to practice from abbreviation to fully written words or vice versa. So what is the best way to do this, keeping in mind that special characters (like .,:;! space) must not be judged. Any idea is welcome. TIA Cor ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Geen virus gevonden in het binnenkomende-bericht. Gecontroleerd door AVG - www.avg.com Versie: 9.0.851 / Virusdatabase: 271.1.1/3020 - datum van uitgifte: 07/21/10 20:36:00 ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
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That is correct. The users are offered a long text and they have to rewrite this to a correct abbreviated text. In the Army, we have about a million abbreviations (or acronyms?) which are used in every written text. Our officers have to able to read and write this without the possibility to look it up in a military dictionary. And, you can imagine they are not allowed to make mistakes, because that might result in shooting in the wrong direction, or worse. -Original Message- From: flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com [mailto:flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com] On Behalf Of Matt S. Sent: donderdag 22 juli 2010 15:50 To: Flash Coders List Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] How to handle String the best way In the end though, aren't you really checking each answer not against the abbreviation but against a correct answer, eg if the abbreviation is: sec and the correct answer is second and the user writes section as their answer, that would be incorrect. But if you compared sec to section, you will still get a match on the letters for sec/sec. So wouldnt you still need to tie the correct answer to the abbreviation, and compare the users response to that, in other words skip over the abbreviation and compare the answer to the correct word that's tied to the abbreviation? I'm probably completely misunderstanding what you're trying to do :) .m .m On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 9:36 AM, Cor c...@chello.nl wrote: I can't publish the actual strings, because they contain military issues. So I will have to create some fake strings. But mainly every full text (our max is 800 characters) can be used and every abbreviation can be 'fake', like the this: Full: These words are the text at its full length. I will write a second sentence here! Short: These wrds are txt at its f len. I will wr a sec sent here! One thing to know is that in military abbreviation, we do not use dots like in normal writing. -Original Message- From: flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com [mailto:flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com] On Behalf Of Matt S. Sent: donderdag 22 juli 2010 15:16 To: Flash Coders List Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] How to handle String the best way Can you give us two actual String samples, of text A and text B, that you're trying to compare? .m On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 3:46 AM, Cor c...@chello.nl wrote: Hi List, I am trying to find how to best compare 2 strings(word by word). I have 2 texts, one fully written and one abbreviated. The texts have exactly the same amount of words and they are in the same order. So in the text field one word is highlighted. The user has to fill in the abbreviation of the text(word by word). The user fills in his translation and ENTERS to confirm. And then the app has to compare the words. He can choose to practice from abbreviation to fully written words or vice versa. So what is the best way to do this, keeping in mind that special characters (like .,:;! space) must not be judged. Any idea is welcome. TIA Cor ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Geen virus gevonden in het binnenkomende-bericht. Gecontroleerd door AVG - www.avg.com Versie: 9.0.851 / Virusdatabase: 271.1.1/3020 - datum van uitgifte: 07/21/10 20:36:00 ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Geen virus gevonden in het binnenkomende-bericht. Gecontroleerd door AVG - www.avg.com Versie: 9.0.851 / Virusdatabase: 271.1.1/3020 - datum van uitgifte: 07/21/10 20:36:00 ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
RE: [Flashcoders] How to handle String the best way
String.replace() then a regular expression like /[,\.!\?:;\\\/]/g and replace it with nothing: . You'll probably want to check which characters to remove but remember to use an escape slash for certain characters. Haven't tried it but there are some examples and lots of help in the docs and more online. not that knowledgeable on regular expressions to be honest. From: c...@chello.nl To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] How to handle String the best way Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2010 15:10:46 +0200 Thanks David. I think you understood exactly what I want. The String.split() was also what I had in mind, but I don't know how to do a regular expression to strip out any punctuation or unwanted characters. Do you have an example of such action? -Original Message- From: flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com [mailto:flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com] On Behalf Of David Hunter Sent: donderdag 22 juli 2010 14:50 To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] How to handle String the best way Not entirely sure if i understand what you want to do, but you could use a regular expression to strip out any punctuation or unwanted characters. String.split() breaks a string into an array of strings by using a specified delimiter which could be a space in this situation, so each word is an element in an array. Apply this process to both your strings and you end up with two arrays which should be easy to compare words and cycle through all the elements. Hope that helps, but I've probably misunderstood what you want to do! David From: c...@chello.nl To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2010 09:46:58 +0200 Subject: [Flashcoders] How to handle String the best way Hi List, I am trying to find how to best compare 2 strings(word by word). I have 2 texts, one fully written and one abbreviated. The texts have exactly the same amount of words and they are in the same order. So in the text field one word is highlighted. The user has to fill in the abbreviation of the text(word by word). The user fills in his translation and ENTERS to confirm. And then the app has to compare the words. He can choose to practice from abbreviation to fully written words or vice versa. So what is the best way to do this, keeping in mind that special characters (like .,:;! space) must not be judged. Any idea is welcome. TIA Cor ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders _ http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/19780/direct/01/ Do you have a story that started on Hotmail? Tell us now___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Geen virus gevonden in het binnenkomende-bericht. Gecontroleerd door AVG - www.avg.com Versie: 9.0.851 / Virusdatabase: 271.1.1/3020 - datum van uitgifte: 07/21/10 20:36:00 ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders _ http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/19780/direct/01/ Do you have a story that started on Hotmail? Tell us now___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
RE: [Flashcoders] How to handle String the best way
Thanks again David. RegExp are a bit scary for me too. :-) -Original Message- From: flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com [mailto:flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com] On Behalf Of David Hunter Sent: donderdag 22 juli 2010 21:14 To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] How to handle String the best way String.replace() then a regular expression like /[,\.!\?:;\\\/]/g and replace it with nothing: . You'll probably want to check which characters to remove but remember to use an escape slash for certain characters. Haven't tried it but there are some examples and lots of help in the docs and more online. not that knowledgeable on regular expressions to be honest. From: c...@chello.nl To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] How to handle String the best way Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2010 15:10:46 +0200 Thanks David. I think you understood exactly what I want. The String.split() was also what I had in mind, but I don't know how to do a regular expression to strip out any punctuation or unwanted characters. Do you have an example of such action? -Original Message- From: flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com [mailto:flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com] On Behalf Of David Hunter Sent: donderdag 22 juli 2010 14:50 To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] How to handle String the best way Not entirely sure if i understand what you want to do, but you could use a regular expression to strip out any punctuation or unwanted characters. String.split() breaks a string into an array of strings by using a specified delimiter which could be a space in this situation, so each word is an element in an array. Apply this process to both your strings and you end up with two arrays which should be easy to compare words and cycle through all the elements. Hope that helps, but I've probably misunderstood what you want to do! David From: c...@chello.nl To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2010 09:46:58 +0200 Subject: [Flashcoders] How to handle String the best way Hi List, I am trying to find how to best compare 2 strings(word by word). I have 2 texts, one fully written and one abbreviated. The texts have exactly the same amount of words and they are in the same order. So in the text field one word is highlighted. The user has to fill in the abbreviation of the text(word by word). The user fills in his translation and ENTERS to confirm. And then the app has to compare the words. He can choose to practice from abbreviation to fully written words or vice versa. So what is the best way to do this, keeping in mind that special characters (like .,:;! space) must not be judged. Any idea is welcome. TIA Cor ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders _ http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/19780/direct/01/ Do you have a story that started on Hotmail? Tell us now___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Geen virus gevonden in het binnenkomende-bericht. Gecontroleerd door AVG - www.avg.com Versie: 9.0.851 / Virusdatabase: 271.1.1/3020 - datum van uitgifte: 07/21/10 20:36:00 ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders _ http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/19780/direct/01/ Do you have a story that started on Hotmail? Tell us now___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Geen virus gevonden in het binnenkomende-bericht. Gecontroleerd door AVG - www.avg.com Versie: 9.0.851 / Virusdatabase: 271.1.1/3020 - datum van uitgifte: 07/21/10 20:36:00 ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
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Hi guys, Sorry to barge in, but I found this site to be helpful with RegExp. Might help you too. Its in javascript, but found it easily translated into AS. http://lawrence.ecorp.net/inet/samples/regexp-intro.php Best, Karl On Jul 22, 2010, at 2:37 PM, Cor wrote: Thanks again David. RegExp are a bit scary for me too. :-) -Original Message- From: flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com [mailto:flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com] On Behalf Of David Hunter Sent: donderdag 22 juli 2010 21:14 To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] How to handle String the best way String.replace() then a regular expression like /[,\.!\?:;\\\/]/g and replace it with nothing: . You'll probably want to check which characters to remove but remember to use an escape slash for certain characters. Haven't tried it but there are some examples and lots of help in the docs and more online. not that knowledgeable on regular expressions to be honest. From: c...@chello.nl To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] How to handle String the best way Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2010 15:10:46 +0200 Thanks David. I think you understood exactly what I want. The String.split() was also what I had in mind, but I don't know how to do a regular expression to strip out any punctuation or unwanted characters. Do you have an example of such action? -Original Message- From: flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com [mailto:flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com] On Behalf Of David Hunter Sent: donderdag 22 juli 2010 14:50 To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] How to handle String the best way Not entirely sure if i understand what you want to do, but you could use a regular expression to strip out any punctuation or unwanted characters. String.split() breaks a string into an array of strings by using a specified delimiter which could be a space in this situation, so each word is an element in an array. Apply this process to both your strings and you end up with two arrays which should be easy to compare words and cycle through all the elements. Hope that helps, but I've probably misunderstood what you want to do! David From: c...@chello.nl To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2010 09:46:58 +0200 Subject: [Flashcoders] How to handle String the best way Hi List, I am trying to find how to best compare 2 strings(word by word). I have 2 texts, one fully written and one abbreviated. The texts have exactly the same amount of words and they are in the same order. So in the text field one word is highlighted. The user has to fill in the abbreviation of the text(word by word). The user fills in his translation and ENTERS to confirm. And then the app has to compare the words. He can choose to practice from abbreviation to fully written words or vice versa. So what is the best way to do this, keeping in mind that special characters (like .,:;! space) must not be judged. Any idea is welcome. TIA Cor ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders _ http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/19780/direct/01/ Do you have a story that started on Hotmail? Tell us now___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Geen virus gevonden in het binnenkomende-bericht. Gecontroleerd door AVG - www.avg.com Versie: 9.0.851 / Virusdatabase: 271.1.1/3020 - datum van uitgifte: 07/21/10 20:36:00 ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders _ http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/19780/direct/01/ Do you have a story that started on Hotmail? Tell us now___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Geen virus gevonden in het binnenkomende-bericht. Gecontroleerd door AVG - www.avg.com Versie: 9.0.851 / Virusdatabase: 271.1.1/3020 - datum van uitgifte: 07/21/10 20:36:00 ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Karl DeSaulniers Design Drumm http://designdrumm.com ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
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Grant Skinner has a great tool for building and testing RegEx http://gskinner.com/RegExr/ I've used it a lot lately - i'm new to RegEx and this makes it a lot less intimidating! On 7/22/2010 3:54 PM, Karl DeSaulniers wrote: Hi guys, Sorry to barge in, but I found this site to be helpful with RegExp. Might help you too. Its in javascript, but found it easily translated into AS. http://lawrence.ecorp.net/inet/samples/regexp-intro.php Best, Karl On Jul 22, 2010, at 2:37 PM, Cor wrote: Thanks again David. RegExp are a bit scary for me too. :-) -Original Message- From: flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com [mailto:flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com] On Behalf Of David Hunter Sent: donderdag 22 juli 2010 21:14 To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] How to handle String the best way String.replace() then a regular expression like /[,\.!\?:;\\\/]/g and replace it with nothing: . You'll probably want to check which characters to remove but remember to use an escape slash for certain characters. Haven't tried it but there are some examples and lots of help in the docs and more online. not that knowledgeable on regular expressions to be honest. From: c...@chello.nl To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] How to handle String the best way Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2010 15:10:46 +0200 Thanks David. I think you understood exactly what I want. The String.split() was also what I had in mind, but I don't know how to do a regular expression to strip out any punctuation or unwanted characters. Do you have an example of such action? -Original Message- From: flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com [mailto:flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com] On Behalf Of David Hunter Sent: donderdag 22 juli 2010 14:50 To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] How to handle String the best way Not entirely sure if i understand what you want to do, but you could use a regular expression to strip out any punctuation or unwanted characters. String.split() breaks a string into an array of strings by using a specified delimiter which could be a space in this situation, so each word is an element in an array. Apply this process to both your strings and you end up with two arrays which should be easy to compare words and cycle through all the elements. Hope that helps, but I've probably misunderstood what you want to do! David From: c...@chello.nl To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2010 09:46:58 +0200 Subject: [Flashcoders] How to handle String the best way Hi List, I am trying to find how to best compare 2 strings(word by word). I have 2 texts, one fully written and one abbreviated. The texts have exactly the same amount of words and they are in the same order. So in the text field one word is highlighted. The user has to fill in the abbreviation of the text(word by word). The user fills in his translation and ENTERS to confirm. And then the app has to compare the words. He can choose to practice from abbreviation to fully written words or vice versa. So what is the best way to do this, keeping in mind that special characters (like .,:;! space) must not be judged. Any idea is welcome. TIA Cor ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders _ http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/19780/direct/01/ Do you have a story that started on Hotmail? Tell us now___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Geen virus gevonden in het binnenkomende-bericht. Gecontroleerd door AVG - www.avg.com Versie: 9.0.851 / Virusdatabase: 271.1.1/3020 - datum van uitgifte: 07/21/10 20:36:00 ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders _ http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/19780/direct/01/ Do you have a story that started on Hotmail? Tell us now___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Geen virus gevonden in het binnenkomende-bericht. Gecontroleerd door AVG - www.avg.com Versie: 9.0.851 / Virusdatabase: 271.1.1/3020 - datum van uitgifte: 07/21/10 20:36:00 ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Karl DeSaulniers Design Drumm http://designdrumm.com ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http
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Ah yes. That's a great one too. Karl Sent from losPhone On Jul 22, 2010, at 3:07 PM, Matt Perkins nudoru.m...@gmail.com wrote: Grant Skinner has a great tool for building and testing RegEx http://gskinner.com/RegExr/ I've used it a lot lately - i'm new to RegEx and this makes it a lot less intimidating! On 7/22/2010 3:54 PM, Karl DeSaulniers wrote: Hi guys, Sorry to barge in, but I found this site to be helpful with RegExp. Might help you too. Its in javascript, but found it easily translated into AS. http://lawrence.ecorp.net/inet/samples/regexp-intro.php Best, Karl On Jul 22, 2010, at 2:37 PM, Cor wrote: Thanks again David. RegExp are a bit scary for me too. :-) -Original Message- From: flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com [mailto:flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com] On Behalf Of David Hunter Sent: donderdag 22 juli 2010 21:14 To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] How to handle String the best way String.replace() then a regular expression like /[,\.!\?:;\\\/]/g and replace it with nothing: . You'll probably want to check which characters to remove but remember to use an escape slash for certain characters. Haven't tried it but there are some examples and lots of help in the docs and more online. not that knowledgeable on regular expressions to be honest. From: c...@chello.nl To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] How to handle String the best way Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2010 15:10:46 +0200 Thanks David. I think you understood exactly what I want. The String.split() was also what I had in mind, but I don't know how to do a regular expression to strip out any punctuation or unwanted characters. Do you have an example of such action? -Original Message- From: flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com [mailto:flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com] On Behalf Of David Hunter Sent: donderdag 22 juli 2010 14:50 To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] How to handle String the best way Not entirely sure if i understand what you want to do, but you could use a regular expression to strip out any punctuation or unwanted characters. String.split() breaks a string into an array of strings by using a specified delimiter which could be a space in this situation, so each word is an element in an array. Apply this process to both your strings and you end up with two arrays which should be easy to compare words and cycle through all the elements. Hope that helps, but I've probably misunderstood what you want to do! David From: c...@chello.nl To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2010 09:46:58 +0200 Subject: [Flashcoders] How to handle String the best way Hi List, I am trying to find how to best compare 2 strings(word by word). I have 2 texts, one fully written and one abbreviated. The texts have exactly the same amount of words and they are in the same order. So in the text field one word is highlighted. The user has to fill in the abbreviation of the text(word by word). The user fills in his translation and ENTERS to confirm. And then the app has to compare the words. He can choose to practice from abbreviation to fully written words or vice versa. So what is the best way to do this, keeping in mind that special characters (like .,:;! space) must not be judged. Any idea is welcome. TIA Cor ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders _ http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/19780/direct/01/ Do you have a story that started on Hotmail? Tell us now___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Geen virus gevonden in het binnenkomende-bericht. Gecontroleerd door AVG - www.avg.com Versie: 9.0.851 / Virusdatabase: 271.1.1/3020 - datum van uitgifte: 07/21/10 20:36:00 ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders _ http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/19780/direct/01/ Do you have a story that started on Hotmail? Tell us now___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Geen virus gevonden in het binnenkomende-bericht. Gecontroleerd door AVG - www.avg.com Versie: 9.0.851 / Virusdatabase: 271.1.1/3020 - datum van uitgifte: 07/21/10 20:36:00 ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Karl
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Seeing as you have specific abbreviations, I don't understand why Regular Expressions are entering into this. You should have the abbreviations and their actual words stored in a database (maybe an XML doc somewhere), then just compare each one, one a word to abbreviation basis. Regular Expressions are not going to work in this scenario unless there are very specific rules that all possible use cases can conform to. On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 1:28 PM, Karl DeSaulniers k...@designdrumm.comwrote: Ah yes. That's a great one too. Karl Sent from losPhone On Jul 22, 2010, at 3:07 PM, Matt Perkins nudoru.m...@gmail.com wrote: Grant Skinner has a great tool for building and testing RegEx http://gskinner.com/RegExr/ I've used it a lot lately - i'm new to RegEx and this makes it a lot less intimidating! On 7/22/2010 3:54 PM, Karl DeSaulniers wrote: Hi guys, Sorry to barge in, but I found this site to be helpful with RegExp. Might help you too. Its in javascript, but found it easily translated into AS. http://lawrence.ecorp.net/inet/samples/regexp-intro.php Best, Karl On Jul 22, 2010, at 2:37 PM, Cor wrote: Thanks again David. RegExp are a bit scary for me too. :-) -Original Message- From: flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com [mailto:flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com] On Behalf Of David Hunter Sent: donderdag 22 juli 2010 21:14 To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] How to handle String the best way String.replace() then a regular expression like /[,\.!\?:;\\\/]/g and replace it with nothing: . You'll probably want to check which characters to remove but remember to use an escape slash for certain characters. Haven't tried it but there are some examples and lots of help in the docs and more online. not that knowledgeable on regular expressions to be honest. From: c...@chello.nl To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] How to handle String the best way Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2010 15:10:46 +0200 Thanks David. I think you understood exactly what I want. The String.split() was also what I had in mind, but I don't know how to do a regular expression to strip out any punctuation or unwanted characters. Do you have an example of such action? -Original Message- From: flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com [mailto:flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com] On Behalf Of David Hunter Sent: donderdag 22 juli 2010 14:50 To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] How to handle String the best way Not entirely sure if i understand what you want to do, but you could use a regular expression to strip out any punctuation or unwanted characters. String.split() breaks a string into an array of strings by using a specified delimiter which could be a space in this situation, so each word is an element in an array. Apply this process to both your strings and you end up with two arrays which should be easy to compare words and cycle through all the elements. Hope that helps, but I've probably misunderstood what you want to do! David From: c...@chello.nl To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2010 09:46:58 +0200 Subject: [Flashcoders] How to handle String the best way Hi List, I am trying to find how to best compare 2 strings(word by word). I have 2 texts, one fully written and one abbreviated. The texts have exactly the same amount of words and they are in the same order. So in the text field one word is highlighted. The user has to fill in the abbreviation of the text(word by word). The user fills in his translation and ENTERS to confirm. And then the app has to compare the words. He can choose to practice from abbreviation to fully written words or vice versa. So what is the best way to do this, keeping in mind that special characters (like .,:;! space) must not be judged. Any idea is welcome. TIA Cor ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders _ http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/19780/direct/01/ Do you have a story that started on Hotmail? Tell us now___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Geen virus gevonden in het binnenkomende-bericht. Gecontroleerd door AVG - www.avg.com Versie: 9.0.851 / Virusdatabase: 271.1.1/3020 - datum van uitgifte: 07/21/10 20:36:00 ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders _ http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/19780/direct/01/ Do you have
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Yeah that was my question, albeit expressed in a much more convoluted way. In the end its just a right/wrong quiz. .m On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 4:42 PM, Taka Kojima t...@gigafied.com wrote: Seeing as you have specific abbreviations, I don't understand why Regular Expressions are entering into this. You should have the abbreviations and their actual words stored in a database (maybe an XML doc somewhere), then just compare each one, one a word to abbreviation basis. Regular Expressions are not going to work in this scenario unless there are very specific rules that all possible use cases can conform to. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
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i think the regular expression is to strip out unwanted characters like punctuation. comparing strings would be done by another process. From: mattsp...@gmail.com Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2010 16:51:03 -0400 Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] How to handle String the best way To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Yeah that was my question, albeit expressed in a much more convoluted way. In the end its just a right/wrong quiz. .m On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 4:42 PM, Taka Kojima t...@gigafied.com wrote: Seeing as you have specific abbreviations, I don't understand why Regular Expressions are entering into this. You should have the abbreviations and their actual words stored in a database (maybe an XML doc somewhere), then just compare each one, one a word to abbreviation basis. Regular Expressions are not going to work in this scenario unless there are very specific rules that all possible use cases can conform to. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders _ http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/19780/direct/01/ We want to hear all your funny, exciting and crazy Hotmail stories. Tell us now___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
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