Re: lHow to do a reverse word list in Perl

On 10/27/06, Mark Reed <markjreed@...> wrote:
> I saw the subject and thought you meant a translating list in the
> opposite direction.  Why would you want to sort a word list in
> alphabetical order according to the backward spelling of the word?  I
> feel I'm missing an application here.
Since you're sorting from the end, all words  sharing a suffix will be
grouped together.This can be a big help if you're doing a
morphological analysis.

Dirk

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