group_in_words.taq

$ java -jar taq.jar group_in_words

in_words(word=inadequate, is=not sufficient to meet a need)
in_words(word=incentive, is=a positive motivational influence)
in_words(word=incidence, is=the relative frequency of occurrence of something)
in_words(word=incident, is=a public disturbance)
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Description

group_in_words.taq shows a regular expression used to select words starting with “in” from a dictionary of words starting with “i”. In addition, it uses grouping to extract the description from the dictionary definition. Here is a dictionary entry example

“incident”, “n. a public disturbance”

Grouping in this case would be used to extract the definition minus the leading “n. ”. The “in_words” template term which performs the grouping

regex(definition, defPattern, def)

The function parameters here are

1. Variable to collect the definition part of the dictionary entry
2. The regular expression (declared in global scope) which ends with a grouping expression “[nvaj.]+ (.*+)”
3. A variable to take the grouping value. This variable is not previously declared.