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Haiku Extractor
Inspired by the cool Tumblr Haiku Times that searches for accidental haiku in New York Times articles, I tried my hand at implementing such a search in Mathematica for my own text samples.
I'm still ...
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How to write a function to remove comments from a .m source file preserving formatting such as line wrapping reasonably?
How to write a function to remove comments from a .m source file preserving formatting such as line wrapping reasonably?
This means if I have
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Unicode beyond Basic Multilingual Plane
String manipulation takes a dive when characters beyond \:FFFF are used e.g. Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols. The characters display fine but doing string ...
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Where can I take a pool of words from?
Dear Community members,
I am thinking about an interactive machine to teach a school child to write difficult words correctly. As a first step I need a collection of words. I will select a pool of ...
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Grabbing a number of characters around a string pattern
If I have some string data:
text = StringTake[ExampleData[{"Text", "DeclarationOfIndependence"}], 400]
"When in the Course of human events, it becomes ...
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Pasting “rectangles” of text side-by-side
In Emacs/Xemacs, there is a rectangle feature, such that you can delete, copy, etc., "rectangles" of text.
Now suppose I have two text files, each containing one column of numbers. Is it possible to ...
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How to import all files of a folder at once?
I know how to import one textfile by calling its name
filestring = Import["myfile.tex", "Text"];
Then "filestring" is a string with the myfile content.
How do ...
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Interpreting text entry and splitting it in a Manipulate text field?
I have the following program that plots the number of trigram appearances across a corpus of textual information between 1964 and 1989 (apologies for the messy code):
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Lexicographic ordering of strings in Mathematica
I recently realized that Mathematica seems incapable of comparing strings in the "normal" expected lexicographic order. Indeed, for some simulations, I need to process text directly, without fiddling ...
