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

[Mark Waddingham]

On 2018-09-01 12:35, Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode wrote:
> That's because you lot tend to use a silver teaspoon while I tend to
> use a great big shovel:
> 
> https://www.dropbox.com/s/00t8oftb1ydm8ni/Text%20analyzer%20X.livecode.zip?dl=0

Heh, great big shovels are great for coarse work - e.g. for the problem 
of finding occurrences of SINGLE WORD towns in the source text - as you 
are in your stack.

However, in this case, that wasn't what was asked for - the problem was 
to find multi-word town names with the constraints that first and 
longest match always wins with no overlap (i.e. as a human would read 
them):

i.e. East Hartford West Palm Beach Colchester Newchester West Chester

With a town list of

    East Hartford
    Hartford West
    West Palm Beach
    Palm Beach
    Chester
    West Chester

Should return:

    East Hartford
    West Palm Beach
    West Chester

Warmest Regards,

Mark.

P.S. The problem is actually exactly the same - in the single-word case 
your alphabet are the characters in the language. In the multi-word 
case, your alphabet is the set of words in all phrases, with a 'stop' 
word.

-- 
Mark Waddingham ~ mark at livecode.com ~ http://www.livecode.com/
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