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1. How2: get count of sentence in mle from word selected in sentence there

• Posted by DanM Apr 29, 2009
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Hope I can explain this well enough to make sense...

I have some source text, which I've parsed for individual sentences, and saved those sentences to individual places in a sequence, with the word count for each sentence attached to each sentences place in the var.

ie, {{"This is sentence one.", 4}, 
     {"And this is the second sentence.", 6}} 

I then cause the sentences to be put into a mle, with, if useful, the number of the sentence displayed preceding it in the mle.

ie, 1*This is sentence one. 
    2*And this is the second sentence. 

I want to allow user to select a word in any sentence in the mle, and cause by a button click that the selected word be replaced with a tagged phrase which would contain more than one word.

I then want to insert the new, edited sentence containing the tagged phrase back into the sequence containing the sentences, deliberately retaining the original word count for each sentence.

ie, {"This is <tagged phrase> sentence one.", 4}

How do I make my program know which sentence it is that has had a word selected & replaced, so I can put that edited sentence back into the correct place in the sentences sequence, from whence it came?

btw, the "sentence count" (1*, 2*) preceding each sentence in the mle is not otherwise necessary for my app, just thought it might help in id-ing which sentence, since sentences some may span more than one line in the mle.

Dan