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<ul class="crumbs"><li><a href="../index.html">Home</a></li><li><a href="../compiler.html">Inform7 Modules</a></li><li><a href="index.html">inflections</a></li><li><a href="index.html#3">Chapter 3: Grammatical Uses of Inflection</a></li><li><b>Article Inflection</b></li></ul><p class="purpose">To inflect "a" into "an", and so forth.</p>
<ul class="toc"><li><a href="#SP1">&#167;1. The indefinite article trie</a></li></ul><hr class="tocbar">
<p class="inwebparagraph"><a id="SP1"></a><b>&#167;1. The indefinite article trie. </b>Here we take text such as "UNESCO document" and put an article in front, to
get "a UNESCO document" (and not "an UNESCO document": these things are much
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<span class="identifier">match_avinue</span><span class="plain"> *</span><span class="identifier">indef_trie</span><span class="plain"> = </span><span class="identifier">NULL</span><span class="plain">;</span>
<span class="reserved">void</span><span class="plain"> </span><span class="functiontext">ArticleInflection::preface_by_article<button class="popup" onclick="togglePopup('usagePopup22')">...<span class="popuptext" id="usagePopup22">Usage of <b>ArticleInflection::preface_by_article</b>:<br>none</span></button></span><span class="plain">(</span><span class="identifier">OUTPUT_STREAM</span><span class="plain">, </span><span class="identifier">text_stream</span><span class="plain"> *</span><span class="identifier">initial_text</span><span class="plain">,</span>
<span class="identifier">PREFORM_LANGUAGE_TYPE</span><span class="plain"> *</span><span class="identifier">nl</span><span class="plain">) {</span>
<span class="reserved">if</span><span class="plain"> (</span><span class="identifier">indef_trie</span><span class="plain"> == </span><span class="identifier">NULL</span><span class="plain">)</span>
<span class="identifier">indef_trie</span><span class="plain"> =</span>
<span class="functiontext"><a href="2-np.html#SP7">Preform::Nonparsing::define_trie</a></span><span class="plain">(</span>
<span class="plain">&lt;</span><span class="identifier">singular</span><span class="plain">-</span><span class="identifier">noun</span><span class="plain">-</span><span class="identifier">to</span><span class="plain">-</span><span class="identifier">its</span><span class="plain">-</span><span class="identifier">indefinite</span><span class="plain">-</span><span class="identifier">article</span><span class="plain">&gt;, </span><span class="identifier">TRIE_START</span><span class="plain">, </span><span class="identifier">NULL</span><span class="plain">);</span>
<span class="identifier">wchar_t</span><span class="plain"> *</span><span class="identifier">result</span><span class="plain"> = </span><span class="identifier">Tries::search_avinue</span><span class="plain">(</span><span class="identifier">indef_trie</span><span class="plain">, </span><span class="identifier">initial_text</span><span class="plain">);</span>
<span class="reserved">if</span><span class="plain"> (</span><span class="identifier">result</span><span class="plain"> == </span><span class="identifier">NULL</span><span class="plain">) </span><span class="identifier">result</span><span class="plain"> = </span><span class="identifier">L</span><span class="string">"a"</span><span class="plain">;</span>
<span class="identifier">WRITE</span><span class="plain">(</span><span class="string">"%w %S"</span><span class="plain">, </span><span class="identifier">result</span><span class="plain">, </span><span class="identifier">initial_text</span><span class="plain">);</span>
<span class="plain">}</span>
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