Re^6: putting text into array word by word

during the foreach loop I remove punctuation and set to lowercase (such that No and no are the same word.

while (<FILE>) 
{ 
   my @these_words = split(' ', $_);
   foreach my $this_word (@these_words)
   {
      
      $this_word =~ s/[[:punct:]]//g;
      $this_word = lc($this_word);
      push @all_words, $this_word;
     

   }
}
[download]

Comment on Re^6: putting text into array word by word Download Code

Replies are listed 'Best First'.
Re^7: putting text into array word by word by Not_a_Number (Prior) on Jan 10, 2012 at 10:35 UTC
`$this_word =~ s/[[:punct:]]//g;` The only problem with that approach is that it removes internal punctuation (ie apostrophes) as well, so that I'll becomes ill, she'd becomes shed, etc. ('Why was Virgina Woolf so obsessed with sheds?' I hear someone ask.) I'd use this instead: `$this_word =~ s/^[[:punct:]]+//; # Remove leading punct. $this_word =~ s/[[:punct:]]+$//; # Remove trailing punct.` [download] Update: added Virginia Woolf sentence.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^8: putting text into array word by word by jms53 (Monk) on Jan 10, 2012 at 19:47 UTC
hadn't thought about that. Good catch, thanks!	[reply]
Re^9: putting text into array word by word by Not_a_Number (Prior) on Jan 10, 2012 at 20:02 UTC
OK, let's extract another worm from the can we've opened. Say we want to count all the times 'John' appears in a text. Given a sentence: Was it John or John's brother? Should the count be one or two?	[reply]
Re^10: putting text into array word by word by jms53 (Monk) on Jan 10, 2012 at 20:14 UTC


Come for the quick hacks, stay for the epiphanies.
	PerlMonks