This project provides a word hierarchy builder.
It builds a tree out of a set of words which can then be navigated by a WordProcessor to generate e.g.
Regexps that match any of the words in the given set.
Example:
java -jar dist/wordhierarchy.jar Euch Euer Eure Eurer
Eu -
er
ch
re
r
(?:Eu(?:er|ch|re(?:r)?))
The output of the command line program is the input partitioned into common parts of words.
If a part of a word does not complete a word, a - is appended (above: Eu -). If a part
of a word does indeed complete a word, no - is appended (above: er, ch, re, r).
The last line of the output is a Java regexp that matches the set of words. It is built by
the included RegexWordProcessor, which can easily be adapted to other regexp dialects
(e.g. perl, etc.).
This example shows the command line use which is merely intended for demonstration purposes. It's mainly to be used is as a library.
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works best for words with common substrings from the left. Could be improved to work with substrings anywhere.
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look at Trie
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simplify using ideas from this post
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improve when there's a row of single characters: Instead of e.g.
(?:3|8|1|6|4)it could generate[38164]. -
improve command line: offer options to generate different regexp dialects.
mvn -B package
mvn release:prepare
mvn release:perform
Bernhard Wagner
Copyright 2011 Bernhard Wagner.
Licensed under GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.