[rochester-pm-list] Crazy question - spellchecker

Brian Mathis bmathis at directedge.com
Fri Dec 3 13:59:45 CST 1999


You might want to check out ispell.  You might be able to pipe stuff
through it and get some results back.  There's 2 versions, GNU and
non-GNU, although they are both free.  They each work a little different.

http://ficus-www.cs.ucla.edu/ficus-members/geoff/ispell.html
http://mohawk.cat.rpi.edu/~tibbetts/ispell_toc.html

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Brian Mathis
Direct Edge


On Fri, 3 Dec 1999, Justin C. Sherrill wrote:

> I want to be able to note words that aren't in a regular dictionary in
> user-submitted text.  Is there a Perl resource out there to check spelling?
> (I looked at CPAN but didn't see anything...)
> 
> All I want to do is highlight words that aren't recognized.  I could seach
> repetitively through a text file containing all known good words, but that's
> slow and redundant.  Is there a better solution I'm not thinking of because
> I'm in a hurry?
> 
> Justin C. Sherrill
> Rochester Road Runner Webmaster
> http://www.rochester.rr.com/
> "Think slow, type fats"
> 




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