Shell Programming and Scripting

#! /usr/bin/perl

use strict;   # These two lines save you endless trouble 
use warnings; # without them typos and such errors get missed

open (my $corpus_file, '<', 'Corpus'); # Created a test corpus with just the contained lines
$/="\r\n"; # Again with the DOS files
chomp(my @corpus = (<$corpus_file>));  # Load the corpus file into an array for faster access
open (my $syllables_file, '<', 'Syllables');
while(<$syllables_file>){
    chomp(my $syllable = $_);
    my $found = 0;
    for my $word (@corpus){
        if ( $word =~ /$syllable/){  # use a regular expression to find a match for the syllable
            print "$syllable=$word\n";
            $found = 1;
            last; #Stop processing the array of words as we have an example
        }
    }
    print "$syllable wasn't matched in the supplied corpus\n" if (! $found);
}

#! /usr/bin/perl

use strict;  # These two lines save you endless trouble
use warnings; # without them typos and such errors get missed

open (my $corpus_file, '<', 'Corpus'); # Created a test corpus with just the contained lines
# $/="\r\n"; # Again with the DOS files
chomp(my @corpus = (<$corpus_file>)); # Load the corpus file into an array for faster access
open (my $syllables_file, '<', 'Syllables');
while(<$syllables_file>){
    chomp(my $syllable = $_);
    my $count = 0;
    my $init = my $med = my $fin = my $stdalone = "NONE";
    for my $word (@corpus) {
        if ( $word =~ /^$syllable.+/) {
            if ($init eq "NONE") {
                $init = $word;
                $count++;
            }
        }
        elsif ($word =~ /.+$syllable.+/) {
            if ($med eq "NONE") {
                $med = $word;
                $count++;
            }
        }
        elsif ($word =~ /.+$syllable$/) {
            if ($fin eq "NONE") {
                $fin = $word;
                $count++;
            }
        }
        elsif ($word =~ /^$syllable$/) {
            if ($stdalone eq "NONE") {
                $stdalone = $word;
                $count++;
            }
        }
        last if $count == 4;
    }
    print "$syllable\nInitial $init\nMedial $med\nFinal $fin\nStandalone $stdalone\n";
    #print "$init\t$med\t$fin\t$stdalone\n";
}