Dear Monks,

I have a list of tags with their index locations with respect to a given string. For example:

String='Titles consisting of a single word are discouraged, and in most cases are disallowed outright.'

tag: tag category: tag-id: start index location: end index location
consisting of: cat1: id1: 7: 20
discouraged: cat1: id2: 39: 50
most cases: cat2: id3: 59: 69
Using the given tag index locations, I want to tag the string as:

Titles (cat1: id1)consisting of(cat1) a single word are (cat1: id2)discouraged(cat1), and in (cat3: id1)most cases(cat3) are disallowed outright.

I tried to attempt this problem by iterating over tag index positions and using 'substr' function over the string for each iteration. However, the problem is that after each iteration the indexes of the string characters change. Please suggest any efficient way of doing this.

Thanks!

In reply to String tags by rajaman

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