Robert,

I think, that wildcards/regular expressions  are not working 
in affixes as for example in perl or awk.
The only kind of wildcarding, that works is:

SFX name strip append condition

if strip or append is the character '0', nothing will 
be stripped or appended.

condition: if it is '.' (dot), there is no condition
  it knows [] for grouping characters.
  for example  [^bght][mn]en means:
  fourth char backwards is not b or g or h or t.
 third char backwards is m or n
 last two chars are en
 for example redmen matchs the condition, ragmen or redken do not.

If you write SFX A 0 ez .
and your word is in the dic like word/A
then  word and wordez will be considered as correct words.

If you want to remove any final letter before adding the suffix,
you must write:
worc/A
word/A
...
SFX A c ez c
SFX A d ez d
...
In this case  worez will be recognized as good word.
Hopefully I understood you correctly.

Regards, Eleonora

Am Samstag, 5. M�rz 2005 18:36 schrieb Robert Pontisso:
> Hello again,
>
> Might anyone know where else I can go to find out
> about the problem I asked about here a few days ago?
>
> In short, is there a simple way for MySpell to remove
> any final letter from a root before adding a suffix?
> The following works in that MySpell suggests the
> correct spelling, but doesn't recognize it (even after
> I accept the correction it has suggested!) :
>
> SFX A . suffix .
>
> Is this a bug, or am I using the wrong wildcard, or is
> there no way to do what I'm looking for?
>
> Thanks very much
>
> Robert Pontisso
>
> --- Robert Pontisso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > I've been tinkering with a MySpell version for a
> > language for which there is no ispell version, so
> > I'm
> > basically starting from scratch.  Things have been
> > going well so far, but I've encountered something
> > odd.
> >
> > I wanted to account for a suffix that can be added
> > to
> > any word, though the last letter of the root has to
> > be
> > removed first.  Not knowing exactly how the
> > spellchecking algorithm works or what the rules for
> > the affix file are, I figured I'd try using the *
> > wildcard twice:
> >
> > SFX A * suffix *
> >
> > Here's the problem: this works, but MySpell (running
> > in OpenOffice1.1.3 in Solaris) doesn't realize it
> > works.  If I spellcheck the new word form (spelled
> > correctly), MySpell flags it as unknown, yet its
> > suggested replacement is exactly the same word,
> > spelled the same way.
> >
> > If MySpell is suggesting the same spelling as the
> > tested word, why is the tested word being flagged as
> > unknown?
> >
> > Thanks very much
> >
> > Robert Pontisso
> >
> >
> >
> >
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