[84279] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: Klingon phonology in regular expressions
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Anderson)
Mon Mar 24 23:52:10 2008
In-Reply-To: <47E84508.7070308@trimboli.name>
From: Alan Anderson <aranders@insightbb.com>
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2008 23:48:48 -0400
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
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Reply-to: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
On Mar 24, 2008, at 8:19 PM, David Trimboli wrote:
> Has anyone ever worked with matching Klingon words in regular
> expressions? It's the prefixes (and -oy) that really cause problems.
Sorry, I can't help with that specific request. As powerful as
regular expressions are, they haven't yet found a place in my toolbox.
I wrote a program many years ago that did it "by hand", breaking down
Klingon words into syllables that could then be run through a
parser. It detected the {jIloy} ambiguity and flagged it for a
second pass, so it could be processed both as {jI-loy} and {jIl-oy}.
Maybe that tack would work for you.
