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Regex Exercise (Short Test): Autotag the Radio Script of The War of the Worlds

• Our newtFire tutorial on Autotagging with Regular Expressions (Regex)
• Regular-Expressions.info Tutorial: a mine of helpful detail on regular expression matching,

The test

• For this test you need to download the War-of-the-World-1938.txt file from the Newtfire site.
• After you have the file downloaded and opened the file in oXygen, open the Find/Replace window.
• Open new text file to record your steps. Record each step of your process on the following tasks carefully, since this is the file we will be evaluating. These will include global Find-and-Replace operations or Regular Expressions in oXygen (using Ctrl-F on Windows or command-F on Mac). Your goal is to produce a well-formed XML document, but even if you have have trouble, what's most important is that you document the steps you took.
• We have already verified for you that there are no reserved characters.
• Also there are no groups of blank lines exceeding 2 (\n{2}).

Your Tasks:

1. Find all of the speakers. Use <spkr> in your replace window to wrap all of the speakers. Record your Find and Replace expressions with a brief description and any additional alterations you made to the text file.

   Bonus: Tag all of the speeches and corresponding speakers. Use <sp> for speech and <spkr> for speaker. Record your Find and Replace expressions with a brief description and any additional alterations you made to the text file. [Hint: remember how you wrapped chapters or acts!]

2. Find all of the stage directions in parenthesis. Tag all of the stage directions with <sd> removing the pseudo-markup (a.k.a. the parentheses). Record your Find and Replace expressions with a brief description and any additional alterations you made to the text file.
3. Make sure you add a root element and verify your new XML file is green in oXygen.
4. Upload two files on Courseweb for this exercise:
   1. a plain-text file in which you recorded your steps
   2. your end result: the XML file you create