thanks for the answers
Limbic~Region : indeed it is a fun project i have envisaged while learning perl since i am a beginner, and i have tried to solve this problem in visual basic 6 , but found that coding in perl is easier
your suggestion about creating a function that given any sentence in the book, determine which chapter it is in by some creative math approach, is interesting and deserve investigation, we can envisaged a story author who may arrange his book like this. but for a random chosen book is it possible to create a magical formula which accomodate the random number of sentences in the chapters?, in this case we may need a statistical analysis to determine if this is possible.

In reply to Re: chapters,sentences, and arrays by Anonymous Monk
in thread chapters,sentences, and arrays by Anonymous Monk

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