[Snowball-discuss] Re: Possible Error in English Stemmer Implementation

[Martin Porter]

Jake,

Very well spotted! I've put the correction in place, and posted your
finding to snowball-discuss.

Thanks

Martin


> I writing to say I think I found an error in your implementation of 
> English_Stemmer (aka Porter2), when dealing with the exception for the 
> 'atlas'.
> 
> file: english_c.txt
> 
>         case 'a':
>             if (equals(z, "\04" "atlas")) return TRUE;      <<< line 380: 04 
> should be 05?
>             if (equals(z, "\05" "andes")) return TRUE;
>             return FALSE;
>