[Melbourne-pm] Looking for suggestions
Brendon Oliver
brendon.oliver at gmail.com
Sun Dec 16 13:51:15 PST 2007
> 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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