This is something I know about. Between a pretty decent VB com .dll and additional in house rules I get about 95.98% accuracy splitting up US/international name components. But there still is the .02% that need individual attention. I never process lists > 100,000 so this error rate is acceptable. My system would have heart failure with a > 3 part last name. Into the .02% bucket... "Dr. Bob Brown Trustee for Ms. June Smith" would not be split correctly. A reference to a relationship between two people is beyond my systems ability. The Mac Donald or apostrophes like O'Connel or hyphens like Foster-Smith are the easy cases even though one never knows what apostrophe variation will be used. When the last name is space delimited with nonstandard prefixes that it starts to get interesting. The only way to sort names with 100% accuracy is to have the name components from the get-go and use Unicode from start to finish. Maybe Watson can do it 100%, but I can't afford the CPU time. I can't wait until LC 7 gets settled down and I can use Unicode LC for production text processing.
Ralph DiMola IT Director Evergreen Information Services rdim...@evergreeninfo.net -----Original Message----- From: use-livecode [mailto:use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of Bob Sneidar Sent: Monday, October 13, 2014 4:20 PM To: How to use LiveCode Subject: Re: problem with counting words Understandable. And yet the question is not how you are to interpret a word boundary, but how a computer which only knows ones and zeros can. It's the (computer) age old problem: Computers don't do what you want them to. They only do what you tell them to. ;-) A great example is how to discern a first, middle and last name in a full name field. Turns out it cannot be done with 100% reliability. Some names have spaces in them like Mac Donald or apostrophes like O'Connel or hyphens like Foster-Smith. Some people have more than three words in their full name. You would have to create a series of special case statements because when mankind invented last names, computers had not been invented yet. Bob S On Oct 12, 2014, at 13:04 , la...@significantplanet.org<mailto:la...@significantplanet.org> wrote: Hi Terry, Here is the real problem. I don't know much. I'm sitting here assuming that a word is a word, regardless of whether it is inside quotes. _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
