[OZAPRS] Repeater list ?

Kim Hawtin kim at hawtin.net.au
Thu Mar 3 17:02:49 EST 2011


On 03/03/11 16:21, Dave Horsfall wrote:
> On Thu, 3 Mar 2011, Richard Murnane wrote:
>
>> Surely this is a job for a Perl guru, one well versed in the voodoo of
>> Regular Expressions...
>
> You could just about use AWK on it, but the tricky bit (as with Perl)
> would be splitting the site and the coverage area.  You could use a few
> heuristics, but it would still need the Mk I Eyeball (and an atlas) to
> clean it up.
>
> Concocted example: Mt Blah North City.  Is that, under pure program
> control, Mt Blah and North City, or Mt Blah North and City?
>
> Something like: if it's two tokens, then it's obvious.  Three or more, its
> context would need to be examined.  If there's "Mt" then attach it to the
> next token.  If the first token is followed by a compass point then things
> get tricky...
>
> Hmmm...  Definitely a Perl job.  Next time I get bored I might have a look
> at it; at the moment I'm trying to write a Perl program to solve the SMH's
> Target puzzle :-)  It's not trivial, and I suspect it's NP.

Yeah, doing eyeball data clensing now... then will feed into perl.

Is there a table of probable entries for each column?
or maybe a key, or some more explaination of the columns?

cheers,

Kim VK5FNET


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