String Problem
Colin Meeks
colinmeeks at home.com
Mon May 14 16:19:36 EDT 2001
I have the following problem and was wondering how people would go about
solving it.
I have a variable string with different keywords in it. What I would like
to do is trim the string so that it has X words either side of the requested
keywords.
i.e. what light through yonder window breaks, tis in the East and Juliet is
the sun.
I would like to specify say, Yonder and East and trim the trim to x words
around it. So if I wanted 2 words either side I would end up with
"light through yonder window breaks, tis in the East and Juliet"
I'm trying to write a small search engine. Although I could write a mass of
code to do what I want, I was wondering if a regular expression could be
used, or anything else, similarly simplistic.?
Colin
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