[84285] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: Klingon phonology in regular expressions
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Trimboli)
Tue Mar 25 09:22:33 2008
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 09:19:46 -0400
From: David Trimboli <david@trimboli.name>
In-reply-to: <FD9FB553-5AF6-46EE-9F76-0EBB7C75A06F@insightbb.com>
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
Errors-to: tlhingan-hol-bounce@kli.org
Reply-to: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
Alan Anderson wrote:
> 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.
It probably would. Would you mind if I examined your source code?
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