Re: [Request] File::Wordlist

2007-12-11 Thread David Landgren 

Chris Dolan wrote:

Dear really-really-lazyweb,

Would someone please create a CPAN module that finds a wordlist on the 
local computer in a cross-platform friendly manner, a la File::HomeDir?  
For typical unix systems, that would be:


  sub find_wordlist {
  return '/usr/share/dict/words';
  }

But it could be smarter and look for, say, 
/usr/share/dict/scrabble-english first.  For Windows, maybe it would 
look for MS Office or OpenOffice files first.


Lucky I wasn't drinking anything when I read this part, otherwise I 
would have snorted stuff all over the keyboard. Like, as if an MS Office 
dictionary is going to be remotely parseable by anything outside itself.


Oh, and you forgot Lotus Notes .dic files :)

David

Re: [Request] File::Wordlist

2007-12-07 Thread benh 
humm... seems like we could/should make a module request list?

On 12/6/07, Chris Dolan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Dear really-really-lazyweb,

 Would someone please create a CPAN module that finds a wordlist on
 the local computer in a cross-platform friendly manner, a la
 File::HomeDir?  For typical unix systems, that would be:

sub find_wordlist {
return '/usr/share/dict/words';
}

 But it could be smarter and look for, say, /usr/share/dict/scrabble-
 english first.  For Windows, maybe it would look for MS Office or
 OpenOffice files first.

 For extra points, it could even parse those files if their not just
 word + newline.  For double extra points, it could download
 additional dictionaries from the web (ispell, etc).

 TIA,
 Chris  ;-)

 References:
http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.fwp/2007/12/msg4038.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Words_(Unix)
http://packages.debian.org/sarge/all/scrabble/filelist
http://packages.ubuntu.com/dapper/virtual/wordlist
http://fmg-www.cs.ucla.edu/geoff/ispell-dictionaries.html
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/3201

 Paths:
/usr/dict/words
/usr/share/dict/*
/Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/dictionaries/en-US.dic
/Library/Dictionaries/New\ Oxford\ American\ Dictionary.dict/
 Contents/dict_body
/sw/share/aspell/*



-- 
benh~

[Request] File::Wordlist

2007-12-06 Thread Chris Dolan 

Dear really-really-lazyweb,

Would someone please create a CPAN module that finds a wordlist on  
the local computer in a cross-platform friendly manner, a la  
File::HomeDir?  For typical unix systems, that would be:


  sub find_wordlist {
  return '/usr/share/dict/words';
  }

But it could be smarter and look for, say, /usr/share/dict/scrabble- 
english first.  For Windows, maybe it would look for MS Office or  
OpenOffice files first.


For extra points, it could even parse those files if their not just  
word + newline.  For double extra points, it could download  
additional dictionaries from the web (ispell, etc).


TIA,
Chris  ;-)

References:
  http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.fwp/2007/12/msg4038.html
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Words_(Unix)
  http://packages.debian.org/sarge/all/scrabble/filelist
  http://packages.ubuntu.com/dapper/virtual/wordlist
  http://fmg-www.cs.ucla.edu/geoff/ispell-dictionaries.html
  http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/3201

Paths:
  /usr/dict/words
  /usr/share/dict/*
  /Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/dictionaries/en-US.dic
  /Library/Dictionaries/New\ Oxford\ American\ Dictionary.dict/ 
Contents/dict_body

  /sw/share/aspell/*