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Hi, I've made a program that solves the game text twist (a word game). I found a list of words online but some of the words aren't actually words at all. I was wondering if there was a way to verify if the string is actually a word and delete it if it's not. Is there any program that can do that or a way I can? I was thinking that I could use something like Microsoft Spell Check or something could someone help? Thanks.
This may help.
yeah you're gonna need a dictionary file... unfotunately, good ones aren't the easiest to find...
As major_small said, you'll need a dictionary. However, could you expand on how some words aren't words? You could do a quick test on the words to see if they contain unallowed characters (!"£$%^&*()_+=}{[];:'@#~,<.>/?\|¬¦` just to name a few), and if they do, don't allow that word. Other than that ... a dictonary file's about the only thing I can think of.
Or better yet, isalpha() or isdigit() or isspace() or something in <cctype>.Quote:
(!"£$%^&*()_+=}{[];:'@#~,<.>/?\|¬¦` just to name a few)
He's trying to trick you, don't listen to him!! HeheQuote:
Originally Posted by dwks
But, that's a much better idea. But some words have -'s in them, and spaces perhaps, so that won't be altogether accurate
What's the trick? You could discard all characters that don't match isspace(), isalpha(), or (if you want to accept numbers) isdigit(). It would be better than habing a long string of characters to ignore, hoping your program will always be run in the same locale under the same character set.