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Re5: Estimating Vocabulary

by belg4mit (Prior)
on Mar 28, 2002 at 01:43 UTC ( [id://154867]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re: Re: Re: Re: Estimating Vocabulary
in thread Estimating Vocabulary

On a linux 2.4.9 box running perl 5.6.0 perl /tmp/a /usr/share/dict/words 1 yields such things as: 

databases
fritter
Saracens
stammerer
when
Whitmanize
willing
writes
Wuhan
youthfully
zigzag
Zoroaster
Zulu
Zulus
Zurich
wc -l could have told you this is 45424 words

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shrivel
topologies
wetter
Wilkins
wristwatch
Yeager
yellowed
zoom
zooms
Zoroastrian
Zulu
Zulus
Zurich
wc -l could have told you this is 45424 words

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valuably
wins
wriggles
Zennist
zoning
Zoroaster
Zulu
Zulus
Zurich
wc -l could have told you this is 45424 words

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knave
requisitioning
seismology
sentimentally
tail
Telnet
Welles
Whipple
winner
workbooks
workmen
Yates
yeas
Yokohama
zodiac
zonally
zone
Zoroaster
Zoroastrian
Zulu
Zulus
Zurich
wc -l could have told you this is 45424 words

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perl -pe "s/\b;([st])/'\1/mg"

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Re: Re5: Estimating Vocabulary
by I0 (Priest) on Mar 28, 2002 at 02:12 UTC
    I can't duplicate your problem. It should be impossible since $ARGV[0]-@lines would be negative while rand($line-$.) is positive.
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      heh heh heh, woops. just re-rechecked and it seems I somehow managed to merge the top of yours with the bottom (while) of mine. Doh!

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      perl -pe "s/\b;([st])/'\1/mg"

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