Richard Suchenwirth 2002-05-13: Reading "An Overview of the Icon programming language" [
1], their final example of a concordance (index of words, with linenumber where it occurred) challenged me to redo it in Tcl. Easily done, of course - now to see how Icon features might be borrowed for Tcl...
Description edit
set test {
On the Future!-how it tells
Of the rapture that impells
To the swinging and the ringing
Of the bells, bells, bells-
Of the bells, bells, bells, bells,
Bells, bells, bells-
To the rhyming and the chiming of the bells!
}
proc concordance {text} {
set n 0
foreach line [split $text \n] {
if {$line==""} continue
regsub -all {[^a-z]} [string tolower $line] " " line2
incr n
foreach word $line2 {
if [string length $word]>=3 {lappend A($word) $n}
}
puts [format "%10d %s" $n $line]
}
puts ""
foreach word [lsort [array names A]] {
puts [format "%-15s %s" $word [join [luniq $A($word)] ", "]]
}
}
proc luniq list {
set res {}
foreach i $list {
if {[lsearch $res $i]<0} {lappend res $i}
}
set res
}
concordance $test 1 On the Future!-how it tells
2 Of the rapture that impells
3 To the swinging and the ringing
4 Of the bells, bells, bells-
5 Of the bells, bells, bells, bells,
6 Bells, bells, bells-
7 To the rhyming and the chiming of the bells!
and 3, 7
bells 4, 5, 6, 7
chiming 7
future 1
how 1
impells 2
rapture 2
rhyming 7
ringing 3
swinging 3
tells 1
that 2
the 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7
