On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 08:07:21AM +0100, Polytropon wrote:
> On Sat, 29 Nov 2008 22:52:10 -0800, Gary Kline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > What you have above prints:
> >
> > foot 1 // noun
> > foot 0 // verb
> >
> > so doesn't work entirely, but is a good start.
>
> I'm so stupid. gsub() does not return the result of the
> substitution (as, for example, sprintf() would return the
> string), but the success of the substitution, 1 or 0.
>
>
>
> > (BTW, man gsub turned up
> > nothing, so I'm assuming thhat gsub it part of awk.
>
> Yes, gsub is listed in "man awk" because it's a function from
> within awk.
>
> I've just pkg_add'ed -r WordNet and tried:
>
> % wn foot -over | awk '/Overview/ { printf("%s %s\n", $4, ($3 ==
> "noun") ? "n." : ""); }'
> foot n.
> foot
>
> Of couse, this handles only "noun". If you want to abbreviate
> other kinds of words (e. g. "verb" -> "v.", "adverb" -> "adv.",
> "adjective" -> "adj."), it would be better to implement a short
> awk script as a "wrapper" for the wn command. If you're only
> interested in the first result mentioned, you could test NR == 1.
>
> % wn foot -over | awk '/Overview/ && (NR == 2) { printf("%s %s\n", $4,
> ($3 == "noun") ? "n." : ""); }'
> foot n.
>
Yeah, "noun" -> "n.", "verb" -> "v.", "adj." -> "a." "adv" is all
right.
Benn awhile since I wrote an awk script... but now's the time.
thanks much,
gary
>
>
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