Re: Spell check idea

2000-01-18 Thread Steven D'Aprano
Richard MacLemale wrote: I know that several people are working on their own on a spell check engine for MetaCard. [snip] Its a good algorithm, but I think it could be simplified a bit. Try: function soundex thisWord -- returns thisWord less any vowels, near-vowels and -- duplicate

Re: Spell check idea

2000-01-17 Thread Geoff Canyon
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