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/*
>
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benh~
