Finding nearest word from a character -Uima Ruta

Question

I need to find the nearest word from a character and that word should startswith that character.

For example:

Sample Text:

What you need is What you get WYG.

From the sample text,I need to find the nearest word startswith W.

Answer 1

Something like:

# W{REGEXP("W.*")};

or more general

DECLARE SameChar, SomeType;
CW{-> SomeType};
STRING firstChar;
SomeType<-{SomeType{-> firstChar = substring(CW.ct,0,1)};} # W{REGEXP(firstChar+".*")-> SameChar};

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