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Hi all.

Apologies if this is a newbie question, but I am new!

I am reading in a string, splitting it into chunks on whitespace and
placing the values in an array which I then process further to match.
I am having problems because some of the matches are not working
because the chunking gives things like

"martin, "

or

"martin. "

i.e there is a comma or full stop as the end of the chunk.

Any ideas how to remove the punctuation before I put the values in the
array to match?

Thanks in advance.

"Stevee" <> wrote in
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> Apologies if this is a newbie question, but I am new!
>
> I am reading in a string, splitting it into chunks on whitespace and
> placing the values in an array which I then process further to match.
> I am having problems because some of the matches are not working
> because the chunking gives things like
>
> "martin, "
>
> or
>
> "martin. "
>
> i.e there is a comma or full stop as the end of the chunk.
>
> Any ideas how to remove the punctuation before I put the values in the
> array to match?

Use split.

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;

my $str = <<EO_TEXT;
I, being the obnoxious person that I am, will ask
Mr. Steeve to please read the posting guidelines,
given that he is new to this group.
EO_TEXT

my @words = split /[[unct:]]?\s+[[unct:]]?/, $str;

{
local $" = '#';
print "@words\n";
}
__END__

D:\Home\asu1\UseNet\clpmisc> tt
I#being#the#obnoxious#person#that#I#am#will#ask#Mr #Steeve#to#please#read
#the#posting#guidelines#given#that#he#is#new#to#th is#group
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Stevee <> wrote in comp.lang.perl.misc:
> Hi all.
>
> Apologies if this is a newbie question, but I am new!
>
> I am reading in a string, splitting it into chunks on whitespace and
> placing the values in an array which I then process further to match.
> I am having problems because some of the matches are not working
> because the chunking gives things like
>
> "martin, "
>
> or
>
> "martin. "

No, it doesn't, not if you split on white space. Your examples
*contain* white space. Show your code so it is clear what you
are doing.

> i.e there is a comma or full stop as the end of the chunk.
>
> Any ideas how to remove the punctuation before I put the values in the
> array to match?

You could split on a combination of white space and punctuation:

my $sentence = "Martin, Martin. O'Brien!";
print "$_\n" for split /[[:space:][unct:]]+/, $sentence;

....or maybe not. You need to define what is punctuation and what
isn't.

Anno
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On 9 Dec 2005 04:51:21 -0800, "Stevee"
<> wrote:

>Hi all.
>
>Apologies if this is a newbie question, but I am new!
>
>I am reading in a string, splitting it into chunks on whitespace and
>placing the values in an array which I then process further to match.
>I am having problems because some of the matches are not working
>because the chunking gives things like
>
>"martin, "
>
>or
>
>"martin. "
>
>i.e there is a comma or full stop as the end of the chunk.
>
>Any ideas how to remove the punctuation before I put the values in the
>array to match?
>
>Thanks in advance.
Nobody knows what punctuation is. Search the internet for punctuation.
When you can define it, then your %99 there.
(Notice I didn't post any bullshit code like the other slackers?)

On Fri, 09 Dec 2005 22:22:58 -0800, robic0 wrote:

>On 9 Dec 2005 04:51:21 -0800, "Stevee"
><> wrote:
>
>>Hi all.
>>
>>Apologies if this is a newbie question, but I am new!
>>
>>I am reading in a string, splitting it into chunks on whitespace and
>>placing the values in an array which I then process further to match.
>>I am having problems because some of the matches are not working
>>because the chunking gives things like
>>
>>"martin, "
>>
>>or
>>
>>"martin. "
>>
>>i.e there is a comma or full stop as the end of the chunk.
>>
>>Any ideas how to remove the punctuation before I put the values in the
>>array to match?
>>
>>Thanks in advance.
>Nobody knows what punctuation is. Search the internet for punctuation.
>When you can define it, then your %99 there.
>(Notice I didn't post any bullshit code like the other slackers?)
Time for a gut check upload of the King James Bible