Re: Porter extension cleaned up

On Wed, 05 Dec 2001, J Smith wrote: > > After seeing my name in lights on the weekly PHP summary, I decided to go > back into that Porter extension I had wrote about earlier and clean things > up a bit. > > I stripped out all of the C++ stuff to make it a bit of an easier fit with > PHP's C code (and it seems to be running slightly faster to boot). > > For now, it can only stem English language words, but after reading some > interesting work by Dr. Porter at snowball.sourceforge.com, I'm thinking > I'll start adding more languages soon. (Most notably, since I work on a > Canadian web application, Francais is forthcoming.) > > For now, the prototype of the lone function in the extension is > > string porter(string word) > > which takes a word, uppercases it, removes and suffixes and returns the > word's stem, or "-1" on any sort of failure. (I'm thinking just to return > the word itself, uppercased and unchanged if there's some sort of failure > -- comments?) Why not return FALSE? -Andrei "This isn't right. This isn't even wrong." -- Wolfgang Pauli