Richmond wrote:
function findWere pText
-- returns a comma-delim list of all the line offsets matching "were *ed"
-- or "were" && <a word in your preterite list>.
put fld "WERBS" into pretList
put wordOffsets("were", pText, true) into offList
Unless the build you're using a custom build, wouldn't that be
"wordOffset" (singular)?
Also, if you're using v7 you might consider "trueWordOffset", which
accounts for quote characters and omits punctuation that characterize
the historic definition of "word" in xTalks.
The Unicode libraries in v7 make many natural-language parsing tasks
much simpler - there's even a new "sentence" chunk type.
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Richard Gaskin
Fourth World Systems
Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web
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