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in thread Files! Reading specific parts

Good point, though it would depend on the application. If you search on the word "house" and you're expecting that it will find both "house" and "houses", then you don't want the word boundary anchors, but if you're expecting to find the word exactly as you typed it, not as a substring of some pluralized word or whatnot, you are most certainly right. ++

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Re: Re: Re: Files! Reading specific parts
by Not_a_Number (Prior) on Jul 29, 2003 at 20:33 UTC

    I speak from bitter experience, believe me. My day job is translating. Once upon a time, in a company that shall remain nameless where I was working, the helpful IT department came up, at my request, with an automated template translator into French (to avoid, in theory, our having to translate the exact same stuff every time we worked on a certain type of document: dates (January -> janvier), fields such as 'originated by', 'approved by', etc.):

    Approved by Paul Newby Approuvé par Paul Newpar

    Oh how we laughed.

    dave