Re: Re^2: Understanding someone else's parser

Here's the kind of stuff I'm looking at:

        while ( $line =~ s/([[:alpha:]][[:alpha:]\']{0,44})[_\-,\.\"\'
+\)\?!:;\/&]{0,5}([ \t\n\r]|$)/ / ) {
            update_word($self,$1, $encoded, '', '[_\-,\.\"\'\)\?!:;\/ 
+&\t\n\r]') if (length $1 >= 3);
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The first line is what POPfile considers a "word", after dealing with some other special cases first. I want to tinker with this program a bit. So, there is nothing funky about it. Just someone else's code to read and understand.

—John

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Re^b100: Understanding someone else's parser by diotalevi (Canon) on Jan 03, 2003 at 00:07 UTC
You should check the module's (and I forget it's name or I'd mention it here) documentation to see which constructs aren't supported. You'll have it locally once you get that ::Explain module installed since it depends on it. Fun Fun Fun in the Fluffy Chair	[reply]