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Counting Syllables in a Word
user name
 2006-10-25 14:48:53 
Hello All,

Can anyone suggest a good regex for counting syllables in a
word? The
language is English and I will be using VBScript.RegExp.
Thanks in
advance.

Rick Quatro


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Counting Syllables in a Word
user name
 2006-10-25 16:41:16 
frameexpert wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> Can anyone suggest a good regex for counting syllables
in a word? The
> language is English and I will be using
VBScript.RegExp. Thanks in
> advance.

Hi, Rick:

I guess it's not easy to implement the rules of counting
syllables with
a single regex pattern. You can look at the source code of
the Perl
Module "Lingua::EN::Syllable" which does the same
thing but uses things
more than regex.. But I guess you might make a similar
VBScript
function by just following this Perl Module source code.

Regards,
Xicheng 


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Counting Syllables in a Word
user name
 2006-10-25 16:41:16 
frameexpert wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> Can anyone suggest a good regex for counting syllables
in a word? The
> language is English and I will be using
VBScript.RegExp. Thanks in
> advance.

Hi, Rick:

I guess it's not easy to implement the rules of counting
syllables with
a single regex pattern. You can look at the source code of
the Perl
Module "Lingua::EN::Syllable" which does the same
thing but uses things
more than regex.. But I guess you might make a similar
VBScript
function by just following this Perl Module source code.

Regards,
Xicheng 


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Counting Syllables in a Word
user name
 2006-10-26 12:15:03 

  


  

    Thanks for the reply. Here is what I came up with. It is not 100% accurate, but I think it is within acceptable limits.

// Count vowels not followed by another vowel, or
// at the end of the 
word.
Set oRegex.Pattern = '[aeiouy](?=[^aeiouy]|$)';
Set iSyllables = 
oRegex.Execute{sWord}.Count;
If iSyllables > 1
  // See if the word 
ends with an "e".
  Set oRegex.Pattern = 'eW*$';
  If 
(oRegex.Test)
    // See if it ends with "le".
 ;   Set 
oRegex.Pattern = 'leW*$';
    If (oRegex.Test = 0)
     ; // 
Subtract one of the vowels.
      Set iSyllables = iSyllables - 1;
    
EndIf
  EndIf
EndIf

Rick

On 10/25/06, Xicheng Jia < xichenggmail.com">xichenggmail.com> wrote:


frameexpert wrote:
>; Hello All,
>
> Can anyone suggest a good regex for counting syllables in a word? The
> language is English and I will be using VBScript.RegExp. Thanks in
> advance.


Hi, Rick:

I guess it's not easy to implement the rules of counting syllables with
a single regex pattern. You can look at the source code of the Perl
Module "Lingua::EN::Syllable" which does the same thing but uses things

more than regex.. But I guess you might make a similar VBScript
function by just following this Perl Module source code.

Regards,
Xicheng 




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