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SBT · 05-10-2012, 03:55 AM

Just a thought:
Since most of the errors are 'll' -> 'l ', what about putting all double-l words in a loop, someting like (Sorry, don't know PHP):

Code:

for word in [actually, hallucinate, tellige, ...]
   pattern=replace(word, 'll', 'l\s')
   replace(all_text,pattern,word)
next

To find all instances of possibly missing l's, you can try

Code:

grep -o "[^ ]\+[^l ]l [a-z][^ ]*" text_file

Ahh... sufficiently advanced regexp is indistiguishable from keyboard white noise :-)

05-10-2012, 03:55 AM	#5
SBT Fanatic Posts: 580 Karma: 810184 Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: Norway Device: prs-t1, tablet, Nook Simple, assorted kindles, iPad	Just a thought: Since most of the errors are 'll' -> 'l ', what about putting all double-l words in a loop, someting like (Sorry, don't know PHP): Code: for word in [actually, hallucinate, tellige, ...] pattern=replace(word, 'll', 'l\s') replace(all_text,pattern,word) next To find all instances of possibly missing l's, you can try Code: grep -o "[^ ]\+[^l ]l [a-z][^ ]*" text_file Ahh... sufficiently advanced regexp is indistiguishable from keyboard white noise :-)