In pursuit of otol

[ReneZ]

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Suffixes are (again ignoring the damned !) [...]

Hi David,

if the ! interlinear placeholder is disturbing, you can remove it easily by using "ivtt".
Your source file should be one of the ones listed  You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. , and since I see you are using the Takeshi file, you could use You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. .
(Of course that one does not have the ! anymore ).

Anyway, were you to use the interlinear file (the only one with ! and %) then the command:

ivtt -b1 <input >output

will get rid of them.

Almost forgot the most important point....
Your regexp tool looks like something that is likely to be of general use.
If you let it ignore anything that appears between < and >, it can be used on all files in IVTFF format.