// Step 4 is the cleaning up of residual suffixes.
//
func step4(word *snowballword.SnowballWord) bool {
hadChange := false
if word.String() == "voudrion" {
log.Println("...", word)
}
// If the word ends s (unicode code point 115),
// not preceded by a, i, o, u, è or s, delete it.
//
if idx := len(word.RS) - 1; idx >= 1 && word.RS[idx] == 115 {
switch word.RS[idx-1] {
case 97, 105, 111, 117, 232, 115:
// Do nothing, preceded by a, i, o, u, è or s
return false
default:
word.RemoveLastNRunes(1)
hadChange = true
}
}
// Note: all the following are restricted to the RV region.
// Search for the longest among the following suffixes in RV.
//
suffix, suffixRunes := word.FirstSuffixIn(word.RVstart, len(word.RS),
"Ière", "ière", "Ier", "ier", "ion", "e", "ë",
)
switch suffix {
case "":
return hadChange
case "ion":
// Delete if in R2 and preceded by s or t in RV
const sLen int = 3 // equivalently, len(suffixRunes)
idx := len(word.RS) - sLen - 1
if word.FitsInR2(sLen) && idx >= 0 && word.FitsInRV(sLen+1) {
if word.RS[idx] == 115 || word.RS[idx] == 116 {
word.RemoveLastNRunes(sLen)
return true
}
}
return hadChange
case "ier", "ière", "Ier", "Ière":
// Replace with i
word.ReplaceSuffixRunes(suffixRunes, []rune("i"), true)
return true
case "e":
word.RemoveLastNRunes(1)
return true
case "ë":
// If preceded by gu (unicode code point 103 & 117), delete
idx := len(word.RS) - 1
if idx >= 2 && word.RS[idx-2] == 103 && word.RS[idx-1] == 117 {
word.RemoveLastNRunes(1)
return true
}
return hadChange
}
return true
}