Re: Word-processing challenge anyone?

From: William M. Klein (wmklein_at_nospam.netcom.com)
Date: 02/14/05 

Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 00:14:16 GMT

OOPS - my mistake (on questions 1 and 2) - I just noticed the requirement to
convert numbers to spaces (before counting)

I still need to find out about hyphenated words. 

-- 
Bill Klein
 wmklein <at> ix.netcom.com
"William M. Klein" <wmklein@nospam.netcom.com> wrote in message 
news:KRRPd.1791168$B07.270156@news.easynews.com...
> More "specification" clarification needed.
>
> 1) Am I correct that you are ignoring (in your "words" the "00n : 00n" in 
> columns 1-7 (i.e. chapter and verse information)
>
> 2) Do you want to count "1" in "1 Samuel" and "2" in "2 Samuel" (etc) as 
> words?
>
> 3) Are you treating hyphenated words as a single word, e.g.
>  "BRICK-KILN" as one or two words in the line
>
> "IRON  AND MADE THEM PASS THROUGH THE BRICK-KILN  AND THUS DID  "
>
> -- 
> Bill Klein
> wmklein <at> ix.netcom.com
> "William M. Klein" <wmklein@nospam.netcom.com> wrote in message 
> news:XFQPd.1786116$B07.269262@news.easynews.com...
>>
>> "David Frank" <dave_frank@hotmail.com> wrote in message 
>> news:420f4915$0$38863$ec3e2dad@news.usenetmonster.com...
>>> FYI   I just posted below in comp.lang.fortran   topic  "Word-processing 
>>> challenge anyone? "
>>> and I expect to get at least 1 solution in reply.
>>>
>>> OTOH, despite the claims that PL/I has superior string-handling thats needed 
>>> in a word-processing application,
>>> there wont be any solutions posted here in comp.lang.pl1   and its for sure 
>>> Weinkam cant produce a competitive
>>> Cobol solution.
>>>
>>> -------------  below posted in comp.lang.fortran ----------
>>> Want to give this a shot?
>>> Get the text file at:   http://patriot.net/~bmcgin/kjvpage.html
>>> Using a  text editor (notepad) remove text before
>>> Book 01 Genesis    and text after last word in Revelations,  (amen)
>>> producing bible.txt file containing
>>> 4,947,047 chars.
>>>
>>
>> Are you counting CR, LF, and other record separators in your
>>
>>    4,947,047 chars
>>
>> count?  I am NOT counting those - and I get
>>
>>  4,719,042
>>
>> characters in the file (when only dealing with characters IN each record)
>>
>> -- 
>> Bill Klein
>> wmklein <at> ix.netcom.com
>>
>>
>
>

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