When thinking of a user-friendly interface to let a user define a table
of words and their hyphenated forms, I stumbled across this cute
problem. It's simple enough to be a fun puzzle, yet not too hard to be
labour. It might even be a fun task for Perl Golf.
The problem is this: given two versions of a word, one without, and one
with hyphenation, determine which hyphens are soft hyphens (optional
breakpoints), and which ones are hard hyphens? For example:
hypo-allergeen hy-po-al-ler-geen
(If you wonder about the hyphenation rules: Dutch)
Here, all hyphens are soft hyphens, except the one between the "o" and
the "a", which is required (I guess. I'm not 100% about the spelling,
people seem to disagree on that one), or at least, let's suppose so.
So, a short and sweet snippet that figures this out, please? The result
may be whatever form you like.
--
Bart.
