fairly happy with this on some random files, want to try doing a phrase db

cmd/phraser/main.go

@@ -22,50 +22,62 @@ func main() {
 		'.': true,
 		'?': true,
 		'!': true,
-		'(':  true,
+		//'(':  true,
 		')': true,
-		'\'': true,
+		//'{':  true,
-		'{':  true,
 		'}': true,
-		'[':  true,
+		//'[':  true,
 		']': true,
-		'“':  true,
+		//'\'': true,
+		//'"':  true,
+		//'“':  true,
 		'”': true,
 		'=': true,
 		'`': true,
+		'-': true,
 	}
 
 	s := bufio.NewScanner(os.Stdin)
 	phraseBuff := []byte{}
+	printed := false
 	for s.Scan() {
 		text := strings.TrimSpace(s.Text())
-		seenSpace := false
 		for i, r := range text {
-			if r == ' ' {
-				seenSpace = true
-			}
 			if ok, val := phraseMarkers[r]; ok && val {
-				if len(phraseBuff) >= 20 && seenSpace {
+				if len(phraseBuff) >= 10 {
-					// TODO QA check for alphabetic content
+					cleaned := clean(phraseBuff)
-					fmt.Println(strings.TrimSpace(string(phraseBuff)))
+					if len(cleaned) > 0 {
+						fmt.Println(cleaned)
+						printed = true
 					}
+				}
+				if !printed {
+					fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "SKIP: %s\n", string(phraseBuff))
+				}
+				printed = false
 				phraseBuff = []byte{}
 			} else {
 				asStr := string(phraseBuff)
 				if r == ' ' && strings.HasSuffix(asStr, " ") {
 					continue
 				}
-				phraseBuff = append(phraseBuff, byte(r))
+				if i == 0 && len(phraseBuff) > 0 && phraseBuff[len(phraseBuff)-1] != ' ' && r != ' ' {
-				if i == len(text)-1 && len(phraseBuff) > 0 && !strings.HasSuffix(asStr, " ") {
 					phraseBuff = append(phraseBuff, byte(' '))
 				}
+				phraseBuff = append(phraseBuff, byte(r))
 			}
 		}
 	}
 }
 
-func clean(s string) string {
+func clean(bs []byte) string {
+	s := string(bs)
 	s = strings.ReplaceAll(s, "’", "'")
+	s = strings.ReplaceAll(s, "\"", "")
+	s = strings.TrimSpace(s)
+	s = strings.ToLower(s)
+
+	// TODO QA check for alphabetism
 
 	return s
 }