Re: regex question in matchChunk function
Thanks to all who replied and offered suggestions. I ended up using the find command on my field in order to accomplish what I need. While probably not super speedy, it seems to be working well. Fortunately the story passages are not too long, so the decreased speed is really not that noticeable. Thanks again, Chris -- Chris Sheffield Read Naturally, Inc. www.readnaturally.com ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: regex question in matchChunk function
It seems that I have missed the good tread. Apologizes if it's a double message ;) To enclose a word without its punctuation you have to define a list of substitute strings like this : - the list of possible form w ,w,,w.,.w,.w. - the substitute list boxw/box ,boxw/box,,boxw/box.,.boxw/box,.boxw/box. With this approach you'll be able to keep your punctuation alive. I'm sure it'll thank us 8) To create a list of possible form of whole word, you could: 1) Define the list of punctuation which could starts a word i.e. : colon,space,nothing,comma 2) Define the list of punctuation which could ends a word i.e. : -,colon,dot,comma ... 3) Then mix all possibilities by two imbricated loops (okay it's like cooking i'm presume 8)) So you'll obtain something like that : put colon,space,comma,nothing,quote into startCharsList put colon,dot,comma,- into endCharsList put w into keyWord put box into htmlTag put into wholeWordList put into substituteList -- Create the list of whole words and its substitute list repeat with startCharNum = 1 to number of items of startCharsList repeat with endCharNum = 1 to number of items of endCharsList put item startCharNum of startCharsList keyWord item endCharNum of endCharsList, after wholeWordList put item startCharNum of startCharsList htmlTag keyWord htmlTag item endCharNum of endCharsList, after substituteList end repeat end repeat -- Search and boxed one or a list of words repeat with aWord in wordList repeat with wholeWordForm in wholeWordList put replaceText(wholeWordForm,w,aWord) into wholeWordForm -- replace the w key in your pattern by the word that you need get fld yourField replace wholeWordForm with itSubstituteForm in it end repeat end repeat See how it could work ? However not sure of the time of processing... Not tested but it's a possibility. Anyway you've already found your way and that is the main, so try this if you would ;) -Zryip TheSlug- wish you the best ! 8) 2009/12/17 Chris Sheffield cmsheffi...@gmail.com Thanks to all who replied and offered suggestions. I ended up using the find command on my field in order to accomplish what I need. While probably not super speedy, it seems to be working well. Fortunately the story passages are not too long, so the decreased speed is really not that noticeable. Thanks again, Chris -- Chris Sheffield Read Naturally, Inc. www.readnaturally.com ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
regex question in matchChunk function
I am not very familiar with regular expressions, and I'm wondering if someone more knowledgeable could give me a hint as to how to accomplish this. Given a passage of text, I need to find every instance of certain words within that text and draw a box around them. The box drawing I can handle just fine by including box in the textStyle of the found chunk. But it's finding the instances that I'm struggling with. Here is my code. Big warning! This should not be run as is, if anyone wants to attempt it. The second repeat will go forever. repeat for each line tWord in tDiffWords repeat until matchChunk(tStoryText, (?i)\b( tWord )\b, tStartChar, tEndChar) is false put the textStyle of char tStartChar to tEndChar of fld StoryText into tStyle if tStyle is empty or tStyle is plain then put box into tStyle else put comma box after tStyle end if set the textStyle of char tStartChar to tEndChar of fld StoryText to tStyle end repeat end repeat What I need is some way to use the matchChunk function and continue the search where the last search ended. I read through some regex documentation and came across \G, but this doesn't seem to work in Rev. But maybe I'm not putting it in the right place in my search string. Can anyone help? Is there a way to do this? Or can someone recommend another method of accomplishing the same thing? Keep in mind that this needs to search whole words in a story passage, and we're dealing with all kinds of punctuation here, including hyphens, em dashes, etc. Thanks, Chris -- Chris Sheffield Read Naturally, Inc. www.readnaturally.com ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: regex question in matchChunk function
On Dec 15, 2009, at 1:46 PM, Chris Sheffield wrote: Can anyone help? Is there a way to do this? Or can someone recommend another method of accomplishing the same thing? Offset -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: regex question in matchChunk function
I am not either. but: on mouseup get fld yourField repeat with y = 1 to the number of words in it if word y of it = yourtext then set the textstyle of word y of fld yourField to box end repeat end mouseup Now this writes to fld yourfield every time it matches. I think if you use the htmltext you can work in a variable and set the style all at once. Faster. Craig newman ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: regex question in matchChunk function
Thanks, Troy. Unfortunately, offset doesn't quite work for me, as it does not honor the wholeMatches property. So I might search for use, and it would find both use and used, which is not the desired result. However, with some extra code I could probably make it work (manually checking for punctuation, spaces, etc.). Not pretty, but might work. Thanks again, Chris On Dec 15, 2009, at 1:05 PM, Troy Rollins wrote: On Dec 15, 2009, at 1:46 PM, Chris Sheffield wrote: Can anyone help? Is there a way to do this? Or can someone recommend another method of accomplishing the same thing? Offset -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution -- Chris Sheffield Read Naturally, Inc. www.readnaturally.com ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: regex question in matchChunk function
Here is one way. These are utility functions I use constantly for text processing. Offsets(str,cntr) returns a comma-delimited list of all the offsets of str in ctnr. Lineoffsets(str,cntr) does the same with lineoffsets. Then you can interate over the list of offsets to do whatever you want to each instance of str in cntr. I keep them in a utility stack that is in the stackinuse, so it is available to all stacks. I don't use regex, as I have never gotten the regex syntax to stick in my head firmly enough to find it natural, and in any case doing it by script turns out to be as fast or faster. -- Peter Peter M. Brigham pmb...@gmail.com http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig - function offsets str,cntr -- returns a comma-delimited list of -- all the offsets of str in cntr put into oList put 0 into startPoint repeat put offset(str,cntr,startPoint) into os if os = 0 then exit repeat add os to startPoint put startPoint , after oList end repeat if char -1 of oList = , then delete last char of oList if oList = then return 0 return mosList end offsets function lineOffsets str,cntr -- returns a comma-delimited list of -- all the lineoffsets of str in cntr put offsets(str,cntr) into charList if charList = 0 then return 0 put the number of items of charList into nbr put into mlo repeat for each item n in charList put the number of lines of (char 1 to n of cntr) \ , after oList end repeat if char -1 of oList = , then delete char -1 of oList return oList end lineOffsets - On Dec 15, 2009, at 1:46 PM, Chris Sheffield wrote: I am not very familiar with regular expressions, and I'm wondering if someone more knowledgeable could give me a hint as to how to accomplish this. Given a passage of text, I need to find every instance of certain words within that text and draw a box around them. The box drawing I can handle just fine by including box in the textStyle of the found chunk. But it's finding the instances that I'm struggling with. Here is my code. Big warning! This should not be run as is, if anyone wants to attempt it. The second repeat will go forever. repeat for each line tWord in tDiffWords repeat until matchChunk(tStoryText, (?i)\b( tWord ) \b, tStartChar, tEndChar) is false put the textStyle of char tStartChar to tEndChar of fld StoryText into tStyle if tStyle is empty or tStyle is plain then put box into tStyle else put comma box after tStyle end if set the textStyle of char tStartChar to tEndChar of fld StoryText to tStyle end repeat end repeat What I need is some way to use the matchChunk function and continue the search where the last search ended. I read through some regex documentation and came across \G, but this doesn't seem to work in Rev. But maybe I'm not putting it in the right place in my search string. Can anyone help? Is there a way to do this? Or can someone recommend another method of accomplishing the same thing? Keep in mind that this needs to search whole words in a story passage, and we're dealing with all kinds of punctuation here, including hyphens, em dashes, etc. Thanks, Chris -- Chris Sheffield Read Naturally, Inc. www.readnaturally.com ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: regex question in matchChunk function
Chris Sheffield wrote: I am not very familiar with regular expressions, and I'm wondering if someone more knowledgeable could give me a hint as to how to accomplish this. Given a passage of text, I need to find every instance of certain words within that text and draw a box around them. All I can think of is to grab the text block and use a series of replace commands to replace each punctuation type with a space. That should still retain your word boundaries and relative character positions. After that, use regex to get the word boundaries. Presumably you won't have to box the punctuation. Ugly, but might work. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
