Re: best method to perform operations on word lists

Francois Massion wrote:

Well, the issue is really a matter of pragmatism. If I do the work
manually or with some VBA macros it will take ages. The situation I am
trying to address is not so uncommon to people working on glossary
issues. Therefore I am trying to find a language-independant solution
which works, say, for 90% of the words.

If you can afford such an error margin, here is a brute approach:

#!perl
use strict; use warnings;
my $list =
"überzeugt
überzeugt,
überzogen
überzogen,
überzogen.
üblich
übliche
üblichen
üblicherweise";
my @terms = split /\n/, $list;
my $prev = 'nonesuch584685542256RANOM58544';
s/(\.|,|e|en|e,|en,|e\.|en\.)$// for @terms;
@terms = grep($_ ne $prev && ($prev = $_), sort @terms);
print $_."\n" for @terms;

FWIW,

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Bart

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