I have a vague idea of what you are asking for, but instead of second-guessing, I'll offer some friendly advice:
- Please read How (Not) To Ask A Question
- Please wrap any code in <code> tags when posting.
- Please read How (Not) To Ask A Question
- Please post a sample of your current code that isn't giving the desired result.
- Please read How (Not) To Ask A Question
- Please ask a specific question, if you have one (I know what I mean. Why don't you?)
- Finally, please read How (Not) To Ask A Question
Update: Oh, and:
- Please post questions in Seekers of Perl Wisdom, not Perl Monks Discussion
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Update 2:
Okay, having said all the above - you could simply do something like this:
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use Lingua::EN::NamedEntity;
$/ = undef;
my $text = <DATA>;
my @entities = extract_entities($text);
my @unwanted_entities = qw( Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday S
+aturday
Sunday);
for (@entities) {
my $entity = ${$_}{entity};
if ( grep { $_ eq $entity } @unwanted_entities ) {
print "Skipping unwanted entity: $entity\n";
}
else {
print "Valid entity: $entity\n"
}
}
And the data for the above code was taken from a "recent BBC News story". The output is as follows:
Valid entity: Mr Murakami
Valid entity: Takafumi Horie
Valid entity: Singapore
Valid entity: Mr Horie
Valid entity: Societe General Asset Management
Valid entity: Asset Management
Skipping unwanted entity: Friday
Valid entity: Tokyo Stock Exchange
Valid entity: Livedoor
Valid entity: Yoshiaki Murakami
Valid entity: Murakami
Valid entity: Tokyo
Valid entity: International Trade and Industry Ministry
Valid entity: Akio Yoshino
Cheers,
Darren :)
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