Re: strings, Re: where is everybody? Re. etc..
- Posted by Irv <irv at ELLIJAY.COM> Nov 02, 2000
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On Thu, 02 Nov 2000, you wrote: > On 2 Nov 2000, at 10:17, Irv wrote: > > > (1), Hey, I think Moe, Larry and Curly are funny, too. > > (2) "We went to the zoo, and saw an elephant, a lion, and 23." > > "My boss is Mr. Smith, and my girlfriend is 19" > > "I am Maxwell Smart, and this is 99." > > Irv, if you are trying to do natural language parsing, the native support in > any puter language won't handle any of those. "Maxwell", "Smart", and > "99" are all tokens in a string, and what the parser does to those tokens is > up to the token definition table you gave the program. It's not something > that the programing language can deal with... well... maybe Ox or Py can > deal with it... Thanks, Kat, but no, this has nothing to do with natural language parsing. It's simply an illustration that data (in the real world) isn't all numbers. We also saw a {103,105,114,97,102,102,101} and an {97,108,108,105,103,97,116,111,114} at the zoo. Just doesn't cut it, does it? Regards, Irv