this is the regression test input file for the text T T S preprocessor.
run it through the preprocessor and compare it with the output file.
any differences indicate a change in the software, either for good or for ill.
we attempt to exercise all the features here, or at least most of them.
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one feature that is exercised throughout is the breakup of sentences, and sometimes paragraphs, at the right places.
for instance a long line is usually the result of a word processor, dumping an entire paragraph to askey.
and so this should become it's own paragraph.
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even though it is not offset by periods on either side.
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section 1, numbers.
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i want 2 point 33 kids and a dog.
i ate 1 hundred twenty 3 cookies in room 3 o 5, which is right next to apartment 2 o 9.
in the nineteen eighty's, the government built 2 thousand 3 hundred fordy 5 c 1 thirdy 5's,
and each plane contained twenty 7 thousand 5 T I 6 sixdy chips.
the twenty first century promises a congress that is better than the 1 hundred forth.
i drive a 4 by 4 into my garage, which is eighteen by twenty by twelve feet.
see the file issue dot 2 thousand 1 o 5 thirteen at 2 o 7 dot 1 sevendy 8 dot 0 dot 1 o 9 for more details.
sagan asserts ninety 8 billion 4 hundred fifdy 3 million ninety 5 thousand 1 hundred ten stars in our galaxy,
or minus 2, thirdy 9, 3 o 5.
visa card number 309 dash 076 dash 812 dash 505.
act 5 is directed by v x stedenko, who often reads chapter 6 using V I.
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section 2, money.
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0 dollers eequals 0 dollers eequals 0 dollers, which is less than 1 cent, or twenty 9 cents.
finally we reach 1 doller, or 1 doller, or 1 doller point 000.
the 5 dollers will sure come in handy, so please send the 5 doller check already.
i spent 2 hundred 9 dollers and sevendy 5 cents, but she got it for 2 hundred dollers and fifdy cents.
the house cost 1 hundred thirdy 9 thousand 5 hundred dollers, the car was doller 23355.
note that nineteen fifdy 6 dollers is similar to 1 thousand 9 hundred fifdy 6 dollers.
the 8 million doller contract ran over budget, costing 9 point 5 5 million dollers.
that's better than the C I A's 6 billion doller contract,
which cost 7 point 3 billion dollers,
and now that you know that, i'll have to shoot you!
the national dett is 4 trillion dollers,
or more accurately,
using the new assessment from the G A O,
4 trillion 3 hundred sevendy 5 billion 2 hundred thirdy 8 million 6 hundred thousand dollers and sevendy 2 cents.
add x to y giving z.
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section 3, words.
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the following two international sentences won't work unless you're running language eequals spanish or german respectively.
el N I o E S grande.
das m D C H E N ist h B S C H.
i work for the N B A, C I A, F B I, C B S, and X Y Z.
i'd normally spell S Y A, but not when it's a name like sya mcspam.
the name T R V X is spelled, cuz there are no vowels,
but not bcdfghjkl, cuz it's too long, that would be ob sessive.
P S, i love you.
my favorite program is P P P D.
here are some hard coded exceptions.
while john's child played with his yoyo and banjoe, john ran sink,
and flew to izriall for a meeting about the latest package from department 3 o 2.
they produced a new version of file dept 3 o 2 dot F A Q.
our stub only replaces bar, hence bar's and bar'll and run together bar words.
P C's with G U I's and D M A's sell like hotcakes, don't ask me why!
you can buy them with your 4 o 1 K's or 4 o 3 B's.
this phrase is cut by apostrophes plus some more words to prevent the garbage discard, we'll be doing this on the next two lines as well.
here is a pathologicallylongwordwi thoutcasebreaks, which will be read in 2 chunks,
and a composite letter digit c variable, var twenty 3 O N 6 sevendy 9.
many students come to the U S, that is, united states,
for their advanced degrees, for example, P H D or M S.
send mail to M jordan at A O L dot com and M M smith at earthlink dot net.
my twelve year old has become a teen ager, and is driving me crazy.
for more on this, see scientific american, volume twenty 3, number 5 sixdy 9,
page 7 and pages 7 twenty 1 to 7 fifdy 9.
ackmey products incorporated is a dellawair company, as is the big tools corporation.
unix is copyright a t and t, nineteen sevendy to 2 thousand.
i t and t is an internationle company.
see the a&e channel for a special on a&p stores.
i live in apartment fifteen C in the patronis building.
subject, reply, forwarded, this might appear in the middle of text.
that is an eleven doller science fiction book.
see you later.
what are you doing, asked jim.
none of your business! replied fred rudely.
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section 4, unprintable and unreadable.
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control chars usually not printed, except bell
original message.
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your mission is to squeeze eequals down.
begin 6 hundred fordy 4 J K L.
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end.
and now for that second file i promised you.
begin 6 hundred fordy 4 Q R S.
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end.
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here's a few emoticons.
that's funny.
don't be so surprised.
wow!
you knew i'd find a way to do it.
wink wink.
too bad i can't find some good words to express them.
so sad.
then i could say this preprocessor was the best around.
told you so.
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happy birthday!
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you sweet sixteen thing you.
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let's start at the very beginning.
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a very good place to start.
when you read you begin with A B C.
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bunsen burners.
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now for sale, you might call this a fire side sale.
ha ha.
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the decline and fall of the roman empire.
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note that the small words, 3 letters or less, in the above title
are not capitalized, yet it is still recognized as a title.
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this title spreads across two lines,
the most we can detect.
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the indenting doesn't mean anything, just pretty.
and finally, an upper case title at the end of a paragraph can be isolated,
although a mixed case title at the end is ignored.
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the rain in spainstays mainly in the plain.
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section 5, dates times phones.
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the output of linux date is,
march thirdy first 2 thousand at ten thirdy 4 eastern standard time.
i'll see you on munday,noavember fourteenth nineteen eighty 7.
i'll see you on noavember fourteenth nineteen eighty 7.
i'll see you on noavember nineteen eighty 7.
i'll see you on noavember nineteen eighty 7.
the project is due in noavember,
i'll see you in september.
sixteen days from now!
the financint is 8 point 7% A P R.
he's coming june thirdyith nineteen fifdy 3, central daylight time, wow.
the show runs from may to juligh.
we're open munday through friday,
you'll be coming in february, right?
the moon is full at toosday, december eighth nineteen ninety 8 at 1 P M to 1 thirdy P M eastern standard time.
the show runs from aiprle twenty third to may ninth.
a better show runs from june nineteenth to the twenty seventh.
i was born september ninth 2 thousand sixdy.
he stayed from december fifteenth nineteen ninety 9 to january fifth 2 thousand.
add 1 third cup bleach to 1 half cup ammonia and you'll probably wind up dead.
better to use 1 forth to 1 half quarts chocolate milk.
throw in 1 and 3 forths of a stick of butter.
his id number is 07 slash twenty 3 slash nineteen slash fifdy 5.
he died munday,january fifteenth seventeen eighty 3 at 1 fifdy 5 P M pacific standard time.
the tests ran from eleven thirdy P M to midnight central daylight time,
and then from noon hawaiian standard time to 6 thirdy.
his basketball career ran from juligh nineteen eighty 5 to nineteen eighty 7.
the show lasted from 1 thirdy to 5, and then from 6 to 7 thirdy,
we watched anywhere from twelve to twenty 9 cartoons.
world war 2 raged from nineteen thirdy 9 to nineteen fordy 5.
i propose we employ anywhere from 8 hundred to 1 thousand people.
business hours are from 9 A M to 5 P M.
we don't bother with the seconds on the timestamp 3 fordy 7.
his id number is 01 02 03 04.
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you can reach me at home at, area code 2 4 8, 5 2 4, 0 9 1 5, or work, area code 2 4 8, 5 2 4, 1 0 0 4, or cellular, area code 8 1 0, 6 6 3, sevendy 7 sixdy 4, extension 029, or my pager
area code 8 hundred, 6 0 1, 2 thousand.
note that 3 0 5, fifdy 5 hundred has no area code, but has the right 7 digit format.
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section 6, units.
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the 1 year old boy cried 8 hours a day, because of his illness.
he only weighed sixteen pounds 3 and 1 half ounces,
with a height of twenty 4 and 1 forth inches.
his parents use a 3 hundred megahurtz pentium P C with sixdy 4 megabites ram, running on sixdy hurtz power.
it can compute pie in twenty 6 miliseconds.
the box is only fordy centimeters by fifdy centimeters, or twelve by fifteen inches.
the car gets thirdy 1 miles per gallon at sevendy 5 miles per hour.
add 1 half teaspoon salt and 1 tablespoon sugar to 5 gallons water.
pour into a 2 quart baking dish, and you'll have a mess.
my 3 foot statue is just a little shorter than your fifdy centimeter statue.
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section 7, prefixes and suffixes.
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mister and misses flintstone often spend time with mizz bonnie slate, mister
slate's daughter.
sister mary elephant and rehverend wtiherspoon pray to saint michael every day.
martin luther king senior had a profound influence on martin luther king junior.
doctors smith and jones hate doctor truss, don't believe a word of his candida theory.
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section 8, addresses.
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thirteen thirteen mockingbird lane, swampland north carolighna, 71323.
fordy 2 twenty 7 peachtree road northeast,
atlanta jorja, 30317,
doctor david frezno,
7 hundred 5 lansing drive,
wherever michigan, 48939,
seventeen twenty 9 saint charles street, saint jose californya, 94373.
6 hundred twenty 5 walnut avenue,
apartment thirdy 3, P O box 2 sevendy 8,
oakland county,
orlando floridda, 38171 dash ninety 9 eighty 7,
twenty 1 sixdy 5 east, thirteen thirdy 5 north,
salt lake city utaw, 85402,
sixteen hundred pensle vainya avenue northeast,
federal triangle, washington D C, 03056.
when you drive from floridda to californya, you spend a lot of time going through texis.
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section 9, bighble verses.
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in the bighble, there are references to angels in
heebrews chapter thirteen verse twenty 5,
first corinthians chapter 5 verse seventeen,
third john chapter 8 verse 5 to 2 twenty 7 P M,
second thessalonians chapter twenty verse 5,
salms chapter 1 nineteen verse 1 o 5,
genisis chapter fifdy verse 1, 1 seventeen 5 eighty 9,
dannyal chapter twelve verse 8, 2 ten,
matthew twenty 7,
first peater chapter 5 verses 8 through seventeen,
and of course who could forget rehvalations chapter 8 verse 4 through chapter 6 verse fifdy 3.
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section ten, U R L's.
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a location under F T P site this dot that dot com,
R login server rock dot and dot roll dot hoochikoo slash!
telnet server W W W dot wayback dot machine dot toons slash rockey dot H T M L.
zoom colen slash slash domain dot with dot unknown dot protocol slash extra slash directories slash that slash we slash don't slash care slash about?
for more information, w W W dot no dot prior dot protocol slash noweb slash needed dot H T M.
or please visit W W W dot microsoft dot com slash is a monopoly slash?
a file under your dot computer dot gov.
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section eleven, list items.
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below is a list of items that affect the project.
1. this is item 1 in a list of items.
2. this is the second item, which,
extends across two lines.
3. use period or colon, it doesn't matter.
3 o 5. big numbers are O K, up to 6 digits.
C. items can also be designated with letters.
but if the previous line isn't itself a list item, and ends in a letter,
we assume it is regular english text, such as my friend john
c calhoon, who told me the answer to life was
fordy 2.
me, i always thought it was fifdy 4?
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lead star indicates a bullet list.
but only if followed by space or tab.
8 bit bullet list marker is recognized.
september ninth nineteen sixdy, an auspicious day in history.
we can also use a lead hyphen.
or double hyphen.
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short list items use commas, such as my favorite fruits.
1, apple.
2, cherry.
3, raspberry.
4 twenty 9, blueberry.
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this is a mail message that i received one day.
i didn't make it up just to test the software.
learn how to.
save hundreds, possibly thousands of dollars monthly.
pay off endless credit card dett.
consolidate bills.
get twenty 5 thousand dollers or more cash.
make home improvements.
get twenty 4 hour pre approval.
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even if.
you're self employed.
you have heavy dett.
you have been previously declined.
collection agencies are calling you now.
you can't prove all your income.
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1. are you the owner and occupant of a single family free standing residence?
3. are you interested in consolidating your monthly bills and reducing your
payments?
or.
would you like to make home improvements?
or.
have an unanticipated need for at least twenty 5 thousand dollers or more for any reason?
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name.
street address.
city.
state.
home phone.
best time for a senior mortgage officer to call.
business phone.
best time for a senior mortgage officer to call.
estimated home value.
estimate of current mortgage.
amount to borrow.
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please log on to W W W dot iwsubscribe dot com to complete your renewal
application.
or, you may receive an application via facsimile by dialing
area code 4 0 2, 9 7 7, 5 0 6 4 from your fax machine.
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section twelve, relinearization.
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karl dahlke,
K D A H L K E at Q R S T dot com,
W W W dot this dot that dot com,
web site some dot other dot site,
fordy 7 o 4 bonniebrook,
troy michigan, 48098,
area code 2 4 8, 5 2 4, 1 0 0 4.
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apple,
banana,
cherry,
grapefruit,
lemon,
lime,
mango,
orange,
peach,
pineapple,
strawberry.
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in addition to this regression test,
you should also test a split screen display at the start and end of a file.
198 newlines compressed