in reply to Re: Quick regexp question
in thread Quick regexp question

Yep, imperfect, but it is the best I can do given the large volume of text I need to process, and meets the level of accuracy of the spec.


<humor> Maybe perl 6 will offer new flavors of \b word boundary tags which'll be smart enough to recognize the start of well-know acronyms...</humor>

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Re: Re: Re: Quick regexp question
by Cody Pendant (Prior) on Oct 06, 2003 at 02:58 UTC
    You could always define a hash of any acronyms that are likely to be there (download a list from somewhere) and put "unless defined $dontchange{$word}" before your regex. 

    ($_='kkvvttuubbooppuuiiffssqqffssmmiibbddllffss')
 =~y~b-v~a-z~s;                             print

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