Searching for a word when it's more than one word

[Richmond Mathewson]

I've already shovelled Ruyton of the Eleven Towns quite effectively:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/n7r7u0c2m9ny3eb/Text%20analyzer%20X.livecode.zip?dl=0

No tokenising, in fact very basic stuff indeed.

Not wishing to bang on about over-complcating things . . . . .

Probably time for both Thee and Me to get out and get some fresh air 
before we ruin our weekends.

Richmond.

On 1/9/2018 2:05 pm, Mark Waddingham via use-livecode wrote:
> On 2018-09-01 12:50, Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode wrote:
>> Yup: indeed: fairly coarse.
>>
>> However, see my next posting re "Ruyton of the Eleven Towns"
>>
>> that should make some folk feel that they need a set of sewing needles
>> rather than "just" a silver teaspoon.
>
> I think you'll find my 'silver teaspoon' approach (as you put it) 
> deals with all those cases :D
>
> Interestingly, as I said, the multi-word match problem can be reduced 
> to your 'shovel' - with pre and post processing.
>
> Let's say that the phrase list is:
>
>   Ruyton of the Eleven Towns
>   East Hartfordshire
>   Colchester
>   Chester
>
> First create a mapping from phrase words to individual characters (the 
> choice of character is arbitrary):
>
>   Ruyton <-> A
>   of <-> B
>   the <-> C
>   Eleven <-> D
>   Towns <-> E
>   East <-> F
>   Hartfordshire <-> G
>   Colchester <-> H
>   Chester <-> I
>
> Now iterate through the source text, generating an output source text 
> consisting of words from the new alphabet, and a 'unknown' letter '*'. 
> For example:
>
>   The man from Ruyton of the Eleven Towns, who is of the order of 
> shovels, travelled from Chester to Colchester via the towns in East 
> Hartfordshire
>
> Would become:
>
>   C**ABCDE**BC*B***I*H**E*FG
>
> The original phrase list is processed similarly to give:
>
>   ABCDE
>   FG
>   H
>   I
>
> Searching the transformed source text using your algorithm with the 
> list of transformed phrases would give the correct set of found 
> phrases as required by the original problem.
>
> Warmest Regards,
>
> Mark.
>