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Re: Klingon phonology in regular expressions

David Trimboli ([email protected])

• From: David Trimboli <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: Klingon phonology in regular expressions
• Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 09:19:46 -0400
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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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