It appears that on 1/16/00 5:18 PM, Richard MacLemale [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
>function soundex thisWord
> put char 1 of thisWord into thisWord2
> repeat with j = 2 to (the number of chars of thisWord)
> if char j of thisWord = char j+1 of thisWord then next repeat
> if (char j of thisWord is not "a") and \
> (char j of thisWord is not "e") and \
> (char j of thisWord is not "i") and \
> (char j of thisWord is not "o") and \
> (char j of thisWord is not "u") and \
> (char j of thisWord is not "y") and \
> (char j of thisWord is not "h") then
> put char j of thisWord after thisWord2
> end if
> end repeat
> return thisWord2
>end soundex
This looks great! You could speed it up by using this:
function soundex thisWord
put char 1 of thisWord into thisWord2
repeat with j = 2 to (the number of chars of thisWord)
if char j of thisWord = char j+1 of thisWord then next repeat
if (char j of thisWord is not in "aeiouyh") then
put char j of thisWord after thisWord2
end if
end repeat
return thisWord2
end soundex
This isn't much of a big deal, since you only hit this code once each
time you find a misspelled word. But combining the dictionary file and
the soundex file and using the filter command would make things a lot
simpler and faster. If each line of the combined file looked like this:
creature<tab>crtr
with the word, a tab, and then the soundex, then you could use offset for
the spellcheck by doing the offset of <return>creature<tab> in return &
theWordList. The great thing would be finding the suggestions based on
the soundex. Say you have the soundex in a variable, theSoundex. Then you
could return the lines that match the soundex just by doing this:
put theWordList into theSoundexMatches
put "*" & tab before theSoundex
filter theSoundexMatches with theSoundex
put theSoundexMatches into fld "Suggestions"
If you set the don't wrap of fld "Suggestions" to true, and the first tab
stop to a suitably high number, then the list will just show the actual
words you're suggesting, without the soundexes showing at all.
I'm typing this off the top of my head, so I'm sure there's an even
better way, but there you go.
gc
Geoff Canyon [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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