[Boulder.pm] Word Association Tool

[Walter Pienciak]

On Sat, 28 Dec 2002, Walter Pienciak wrote:

> On Fri, 27 Dec 2002, Lewis, Donald G wrote:
>
> > Does anyone know of a table based word association tool. It would check to
> > see if a list of words is in a file and if so is another word in the same
> > file. Optionally you could say how many words away the association can be
> > detected.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Donald G. Lewis (303-581-4879)
> > Lockheed Martin M&DS
> > Boulder, CO
>
> I don't have the time right now to check out the various packages, but
> this sounds like something common to many search engines.  I'd look
> at swish, glimpse, and htdig.  If any of them return the offset in a file
> for a particular word, you're in.
>
> Walter

Replying to myself again . . .

Depending on what you want to do -- how many files, how often they
change, etc. -- you might also want to hack a script using GNU grep,
which has a --byte-offset switch.

I'm going outside now:  it's a beautiful day, and it would be a crime
to spend it all puttering at the keyboard.

Walter