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Re: Weeding out words


  • Subject: Re: Weeding out words
  • From: Tim Mansour <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2007 14:02:11 +1100


On 08/02/2007, at 5:38 pm, Brett Conlon wrote:

set TitleAns to "My Collection box set asset boxy dog box collection is here" -- some example text returned in a user dialog
set Offenders to {"collection", "box", "set", "boxset"} -- words which need to be stripped if the user entered them by mistake.

Um ... is it just me, or does this seem like a strange thing to do? When asking for a text response from the user they can write absolutely anything they like. So shouldn't you be looking for words that are legal, rather than removing ones that aren't?



-- Tim Mansour <email@hidden>



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