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Hmm. My paragraph above beginning 'The second problem...' could have been worded a bit better.

What I meant is that a simple word like 'hello' has two pairings with the "prondelim" etc string. The first pairing (the one I'm actually matching) sets off the Show IPA html code. The second pairing sets off the Show Spelled Pronunciation html code.

A word with multiple entries at dictionary.com will have multiple pairings, both for IPA and for spelled pronunciation. I don't want to match the greedy-final pairing -- I want to extract whatever IPA comes up first.

As for the meaning of 'English bits' in my code comments, try the word 'of' at dictionary.com. I'll be matching on stuff like 'unstressed' and 'especially before consonants,' too.

In reply to Re^3: Writing International Phonetic Alphabet symbols to Excel? by cypress
in thread Writing International Phonetic Alphabet symbols to Excel? by cypress

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