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Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH | 11 May 18:20
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Re: dropping hyphens and \n in words


On 2008 May 11, at 11:47, Ivan Amarquaye wrote:

Now my problem is this...I'm assuming that the hyphen normally comes at the end of a sentence like this: "there are so many guys ravis-hing our women" and this can be demonstrated in haskell by "\n" which places the words or characters following it in a new line like this:
input: makeIndex"there are so many guys ravis\nhing our women" and output is: (([1],[there]),([1],[ravis]),([2],[hing])) where 1 means the first line and 2 the next. 

Somewhat unrelated point:  breaking between "s" and "h" would be peculiar for English because they're components of a digraph.

Now i want to write a function that would take away the hyphen and \n  from all the words supposed to end on the first line and continue on the next and make all appear on the first line like this: all words in this form: "chip-\nheater" should become "chipheater". hope i can get some guidance on doing this.


Hint:  \n may look funny, but it is a character like any other and can be used in pattern matching.

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