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RE: Contest

• Posted by Chris Bensler <bensler at nt.net> Oct 30, 2004
• 483 views

Derek Parnell wrote:
> 
> 
> posted by: Derek Parnell <ddparnell at bigpond.com>
> 
> cklester wrote:
> > 
> > Derek Parnell wrote:
> > > 
> > > Juergen Luethje wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > Hi Derek,
> > > > 
> > > > according to your rules,
> > > >    2004    is not a word, but
> > > >     '04    is a word.
> > 
> > Would this be a token of "04," despite that "all numbers" is not
> > considered a valid token?
> 
> '04     Is a three-character token
> 
<SNIP>

Don't you mean TWO??
if its and it's are the same, then ' is ignored.
its can't be both 3 chars and 4 characters long.

Are you saying that its and it's are treated as the same token, but 
have different lengths? In other words, while ' should be ignored, they 
should still be counted?

Chris Bensler
Code is Alchemy