A lineA line is the string of text limited by the width of a page.
Lines are often used in tokenization, and may contain parts of one or more sentences. For example
"The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog."
is a complete sentence and occurs on one line. By contrast,
"Hard by a great forest dwelt a poor wood-cutter with his wife and his
two children. The boy was called Hansel and the girl Gretel. He had little
to bite and to break, and once when great dearth fell on the land, he
could no longer procure even daily bread."
spans three sentences and four lines.
Return to Glossary. is the stringA string is a series of characters (symbols, letters or numbers) of finite length.
Strings are used to generate a collocation, concordance, co-occurrence, or any other type of textual analysis in which locating a word fragment, word, phrase, sentence and so on is important.
For more information, see the Wikipedia.
Return to Glossary. of text limited by the width of a page.
Lines are often used in tokenizationTokenization is the act of generating tokens, such as word fragments, words, phrases or sentences, from a source text based on a delimiter.
In text analysis, tokenization enables the generation of everything from word counts to statistical analysis to creating a concordance.
For more information, see the Wikipedia.
Return to Glossary., and may contain parts of one or more sentences. For example
"The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog."
is a complete sentence and occurs on one lineA line is the string of text limited by the width of a page.
Lines are often used in tokenization, and may contain parts of one or more sentences. For example
"The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog."
is a complete sentence and occurs on one line. By contrast,
"Hard by a great forest dwelt a poor wood-cutter with his wife and his
two children. The boy was called Hansel and the girl Gretel. He had little
to bite and to break, and once when great dearth fell on the land, he
could no longer procure even daily bread."
spans three sentences and four lines.
Return to Glossary.. By contrast,
"Hard by a great forest dwelt a poor wood-cutter with his wife and his
two children. The boy was called Hansel and the girl Gretel. He had little
to bite and to break, and once when great dearth fell on the land, he
could no longer procure even daily bread."