Comments on: Adjectives and Adverbs

By: cecilm

cecilm — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 16:19:43 +0000

ah, I didn’t see the space in the last ” v.”

By: robfelty

robfelty — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 22:29:46 +0000

No. I meant what I said. Another example: echo "quickly, adv." | grep -E '(adj|n|v)\.' This matches, which might lead you to believe that that the presence of adj in your regular expression is the reason. However, it is the presence of v Compare with: echo "quickly, adv." | grep -E ' (adj|n|v)\.' This does not match, because we are looking for a space followed by either adj., n., or v.. The space is necessary.

By: cecilm

cecilm — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 22:08:22 +0000

Did you mean to say: the string does contain “v”. However the string does not contain “adj.”?