Comments on: “How’d they do that?” Correcting punctuation http://blog.fluther.com/howd-they-do-that-correcting-punctuation/ Tapping and Collecting Thu, 10 May 2012 08:03:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.3 By: The Fluther Blog » Blog Archive » “How’d they do that?” Real-time chat. http://blog.fluther.com/howd-they-do-that-correcting-punctuation/comment-page-1/#comment-98 The Fluther Blog » Blog Archive » “How’d they do that?” Real-time chat. Wed, 02 Apr 2008 16:46:42 +0000 http://www.fluther.com/blog/index.php/2008/03/25/howd-they-do-that-correcting-punctuation-and-capitalization/#comment-98 [...] Erik’s last entry in the series, robmandu asked how we implemented the real-time chat. So, ask and ye shall receive! [...] […] Erik’s last entry in the series, robmandu asked how we implemented the real-time chat. So, ask and ye shall receive! […]

]]> By: andrew http://blog.fluther.com/howd-they-do-that-correcting-punctuation/comment-page-1/#comment-92 andrew Wed, 26 Mar 2008 19:46:42 +0000 http://www.fluther.com/blog/index.php/2008/03/25/howd-they-do-that-correcting-punctuation-and-capitalization/#comment-92 Great thought paulc. You can do the same in python with <code> In [1]: question = "ABCabc" In [2]: float(len(re.findall(r'[A-Z]{1}', question))) / len(re.findall(r'[a-zA-Z]{1}', question)) Out[3]: 0.5 </code> Great thought paulc. You can do the same in python with

In [1]: question = "ABCabc"
In [2]: float(len(re.findall(r'[A-Z]{1}', question))) / len(re.findall(r'[a-zA-Z]{1}', question))
Out[3]: 0.5

]]> By: paulc http://blog.fluther.com/howd-they-do-that-correcting-punctuation/comment-page-1/#comment-93 paulc Wed, 26 Mar 2008 15:12:06 +0000 http://www.fluther.com/blog/index.php/2008/03/25/howd-they-do-that-correcting-punctuation-and-capitalization/#comment-93 I was just messing about and I found that a question like "ALMOST aLL CAPITALS" doesn't get corrected. Years back I remember seeing IRC bots that would boot people out of channels if more than x% of their message was in capitals. I don't know the Python syntax but something like this in Ruby would be: >> question = "ABCabc" >> question.scan(/[A-Z]{1}/).length.to_f / question.scan(/[a-zA-Z]{1}/).length.to_f => 0.5 I was just messing about and I found that a question like “ALMOST aLL CAPITALS” doesn’t get corrected. Years back I remember seeing IRC bots that would boot people out of channels if more than x% of their message was in capitals. I don’t know the Python syntax but something like this in Ruby would be:

» question = “ABCabc“
» question.scan(/[A-Z]{1}/).length.to_f / question.scan(/[a-zA-Z]{1}/).length.to_f
=> 0.5

]]> By: Vincent http://blog.fluther.com/howd-they-do-that-correcting-punctuation/comment-page-1/#comment-97 Vincent Tue, 25 Mar 2008 19:46:19 +0000 http://www.fluther.com/blog/index.php/2008/03/25/howd-they-do-that-correcting-punctuation-and-capitalization/#comment-97 @klaas4 - you can easily to the same in PHP with PCRE (Perl-Compatible Regular Expresions). A very good tutorial can be found at http://www.tote-taste.de/X-Project/regex/index.php The advantage of using PCRE over some language-specific RE is that PCRE is very often used and has implementations in most any language, so you'd just need to learn it once. Anyway, I think these posts are quite interesting, keep them up :) @klaas4 — you can easily to the same in PHP with PCRE (Perl-Compatible Regular Expresions). A very good tutorial can be found at http://www.tote-taste.de/X-Project/regex/index.php
The advantage of using PCRE over some language-specific RE is that PCRE is very often used and has implementations in most any language, so you’d just need to learn it once.

Anyway, I think these posts are quite interesting, keep them up :)

]]> By: robmandu http://blog.fluther.com/howd-they-do-that-correcting-punctuation/comment-page-1/#comment-96 robmandu Tue, 25 Mar 2008 16:43:15 +0000 http://www.fluther.com/blog/index.php/2008/03/25/howd-they-do-that-correcting-punctuation-and-capitalization/#comment-96 I'd be interested to see some of the underpinnings that allow another user to dynamically update the page I'm currently viewing. That level of interactiveness on the web was unpossible only a few short years ago. And Fluther's implementation of that concept is schweet. I’d be interested to see some of the underpinnings that allow another user to dynamically update the page I’m currently viewing. That level of interactiveness on the web was unpossible only a few short years ago. And Fluther’s implementation of that concept is schweet.

]]> By: klaas4 http://blog.fluther.com/howd-they-do-that-correcting-punctuation/comment-page-1/#comment-95 klaas4 Tue, 25 Mar 2008 16:36:08 +0000 http://www.fluther.com/blog/index.php/2008/03/25/howd-they-do-that-correcting-punctuation-and-capitalization/#comment-95 This is indeed cool. I wish I could code like that. I'm still stuck at PHP, HTML, CSS and tables. ;-) This is indeed cool. I wish I could code like that. I’m still stuck at PHP, HTML, CSS and tables. ;-)

]]> By: omfgTALIjustIMDu http://blog.fluther.com/howd-they-do-that-correcting-punctuation/comment-page-1/#comment-94 omfgTALIjustIMDu Tue, 25 Mar 2008 16:31:12 +0000 http://www.fluther.com/blog/index.php/2008/03/25/howd-they-do-that-correcting-punctuation-and-capitalization/#comment-94 Erik, this is SO cool. I've always been fascinated with code and how people actually get websites up and running. Thanks for sharing! Erik, this is SO cool. I’ve always been fascinated with code and how people actually get websites up and running. Thanks for sharing!

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