Re: Run-length encoding (RLE) of stream segments ...
On 26-12-2010 15:15, lbrt chx _ gemale kom wrote:
On 26-12-2010 14:02, lbrt chx _ gemale kom wrote:
Why don't you just use regular zip (deflate) algorithm, which is build into Java.
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Because I need some sort of Run-length encoding to get the "finger" (characteristic) of those mistyping/proof reading texts and re-encode the RLE as a regexp. (So I know what some editors/proofreaders "mean" when they litter texts in their own ways ...)
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That could just as well have been in Chinese - I completely don't get it.
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OK. The technical term (someone's) "finger" (or was it "hand"?) was coined during WW2 by "intelligence" services wiretapping each other's morse code messages. They didn't know the actual persons on the other end but they did know "their finger" by the slight, but very much identifying, difference in which they tapped on their telegraph, the time of day they worked, ...
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The thing is that, due to various reasons, each particular proof reader has a characteristic footprint/way to mess with texts, say, to some people a new paragraph is two CRLF sequences to other a CRLF + SP one ...
It is not clear what value RLE provide in this context.
Arne
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