rhythm and syzygy
Thursday, 3 March 2005 08:19 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
miriam_eHmmm... seems there are only two ordinary words in English that have no vowels and are longer than 5 letters... ignoring plurals.
I found this by searching a thesaurus with the simple regular expression:
\<[b-df-hj-np-tv-z]\{6,\}\>
Read it as:
\< \> surrounding all or part of the expression indicates a word. That is, it won't match parts of words.
[ ] surrounds a list of letters to be matched
look for consonants only b-d, f-h, j-n, p-t, v-z (the '-' means 'to', as in 'letters j to n')
\{6,\} minimum of 6 letters; maximum number unspecified
\ the backslash prevents the next character having a different meaning.
GUIs are nice, but command lines rock.
[sigh]... the things we do for entertainment.
I found this by searching a thesaurus with the simple regular expression:
\<[b-df-hj-np-tv-z]\{6,\}\>
Read it as:
\< \> surrounding all or part of the expression indicates a word. That is, it won't match parts of words.
[ ] surrounds a list of letters to be matched
look for consonants only b-d, f-h, j-n, p-t, v-z (the '-' means 'to', as in 'letters j to n')
\{6,\} minimum of 6 letters; maximum number unspecified
\ the backslash prevents the next character having a different meaning.
GUIs are nice, but command lines rock.
[sigh]... the things we do for entertainment.