OpenEuphoria

RE: Contest

• Posted by Derek Parnell <ddparnell at bigpond.com> Oct 29, 2004
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Kat wrote:
> 
> On 28 Oct 2004, at 19:20, Derek Parnell wrote:
> 
> > 
> > posted by: Derek Parnell <ddparnell at bigpond.com>
> > 
> > Chris Bensler wrote:
> > > 
> > > Can a quote character begin a word?
> > > such as 'example'
> > >
> > 
> > Yes. A quote is a word character but it does not take part in comparisons
> > or word-length determination. Thus " 'example' " is a word of 7 characters,
> > and
> > " 'Tis lov'd anon' " is three words and equivalent to "TIS", "LOVD" and
> > "ANON" -
> > okay?
> 
> Not entirely. Do we display ( "'TIS"  or "TIS" ) and ( "LOVD" or "LOV'D" ) as 
> the word found?

I don't care. But remember that if you find "IT'S", "ITS" and "'I'T''S'" 
in a file they are all counted as the same word so I don't mind if you
display any of them. It's your call. But I will be more impressed by 
a legible display that one that is hard to read.

-- 
Derek Parnell
Melbourne, Australia