[Melbourne-pm] Looking for suggestions
Guy Morton
guy at alchemy.com.au
Sun Dec 16 14:08:27 PST 2007
here's a thought - you shouldn't cheat. :-)
On 17/12/2007, at 8:51 AM, Brendon Oliver wrote:
>> there's a very valuable lesson about perl here: there will almost
>> always
>> be a perl module in CPAN to do exactly what you need....and it
>> will do
>> it properly, rather than implementing your own quick-and-dirty
>> partial
>> solution.
>
> .. and speaking of which, I was poking around cpan a bit over the
> weekend
> looking for a module to help me but no luck, so I'm hoping someone
> might have
> a suggestion or two before I go off and write something of my own:
>
> What I'm after is something to help solve word puzzles like
> Scrabble, Boggle,
> crosswords, etc. What I'm thinking of is something that I can feed,
> say /usr/share/dict/*, then give it a string (or list) of random
> letters and
> a maximum word length. Said module would then process possible
> permutations
> of the letters and return a list of valid "words" from the dictionary,
> containing only those letters and no longer than the max word length.
> Ability to accept a meta-character (eg. * or ?) to indicate a
> wildcard letter
> (matches anything) would be a bonus. ie. given say ouxz*se and max
> length 5,
> would give house, mouse, rouse, etc. as possible words.
>
>
> Thoughts anyone?
>
> cheers,
>
> - b.
>
>
>
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