ive been making a program that can take seven letters and put them in any order till I say stop. recently had a frend look at it and he said it was ok but should be able to tell if there is a word and stop when it finds one
so basically for those whoo didn't want to read the introduction I need a way for the computer to tell if it's a word??
OK. Good project.
Well, at the very least, you'll need to:
1. Find a dictionary file (there are plenty on the web)
2. Read the file into a suitable format in memory (I'd recommend either a sorted std::vector<std::string>, or std::set<std::string>.
3. For each permutation of the letters, check if that string was in the dictionary (which is where a sorted vector or a set comes in handy, it's fast).
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what is a dictionary file
A dictionary file is a file that contains all the words you want your program to "know".
I might be wrong.
Quoted more than 1000 times (I hope).Thank you, anon. You sure know how to recognize different types of trees from quite a long way away.
Ok Cat said it was easy to download a dictionary file but sofar I ave dwnloaded 4 things that I thought were one but werent
Last edited by tbca; 07-28-2007 at 11:22 AM.
Well, you need to Google. To get you started, may-be you can copy a small word list from this (quite random) page: 850 words
That is if you are English. I'm non-English and to this date I've found only one word-listing for my language and that is full of compound words that wouldn't make sense for a project like you have
I might be wrong.
Quoted more than 1000 times (I hope).Thank you, anon. You sure know how to recognize different types of trees from quite a long way away.
