From: dblack@...
Date: 2006-04-27T22:01:17+09:00
Subject: Re: [SUMMARY] Text Munger (#76)

Hi --

On Thu, 27 Apr 2006, James Edward Gray II wrote:

> On Apr 27, 2006, at 7:41 AM, dblack@wobblini.net wrote:
>
>> Hi --
>> 
>> On Thu, 27 Apr 2006, Ruby Quiz wrote:
>> 
>>> It's important to remember that this is the Regular Expression definition 
>>> of
>>> "words", including digit characters and the underscore.  That's not a 
>>> perfect
>>> match for the quiz task, but was a popular choice nonetheless.
>>> 
>>> Now, I did say *all* words are scrambled and that is what I meant.  A run 
>>> of
>>> four or more punctuation characters is a word, and the middle punctuation 
>>> would
>>> be scrambled.  In practice, this is rare enough to be a minor issue.
>> 
>> "Are you kiddin'?!" he exclaimed :-)
>> 
>> I thought some of the solutions addressed these problems, didn't they,
>> with [^\W\d_] and such?
>
> I meant that scrambling long runs of punctuation didn't really seem to be a 
> problem in actual usage.

I gues "Are you kiddin'?!" is a bit of a stretch -- though possible --
but consider:

   "I'm just not sure...." he said.


David

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