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Recognize protracted words
  
 
Posted: Aug 28, 2017

Hey,

I want to recognize words which have some of its characters repeated to often.

E.g. recognize these words as

hello

:

helloo
heelllooooooooooo
heeelllooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

Is there a way to do this?

 

 
 

 
Posted: Aug 28, 2017
   [ # 1 ]

chatscript automatically removes excess repeated characters, so at best you get helloo and not helloooooo… try :prepare to see
 

 
Posted: Aug 28, 2017
   [ # 2 ]

Is there a specific token flag needed for this?
Cause I tried :prepare and I still end up with “hellooooooooooooooooooooooo”
 

 
Posted: Aug 28, 2017
   [ # 3 ]

you are correct. It does not do that… I think ONCE upon a time it did, a while ago.

You CAN pattern match for extended tail characters using u: (hello* ) but that also allows any other characters even non-repeating ones.
 

 
Posted: Aug 28, 2017
   [ # 4 ]

I should probably add such a capability back in.
 

 
Posted: Aug 29, 2017
   [ # 5 ]

In the mean time, you might be able to do something along the line of this (untested):

u: ( _*1 )
  $_pos = ^position(START _0)
  $_word = _0
  $_last = ^extract($_word -1 +1)
  $_len = ^length($_word)
  $_same = 0
  ^loop()
  {
    if ($_len > 2 AND ^extract($_word -2 +1) == $_last) {
      $_len -= 1
      $_word = ^extract($_word 0 $_len)
      $_same += 1
    } else {
      ^end(LOOP)
    }
  }
  if ($_same > 0) {
    ^setcanon($_pos $_word)
  }
  ^unmark(* _0)
  ^retry(RULE) 

 
 

 
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