Word Searching (Fun Little program)

[kingjacob90]

I have this very simple but possibly quite complicated idea for a program. It is kind of a rip of the "Find" function used in many programs and really is in a way a re-create. The problem is it take ages for the program to process the information and that is on a good PC (i5-6600, 16GB DDR4, SSD). The question, why? Why cant it work just like the find function, and how does the find function in many programs work so efficiently?

Website for the words file as only allowed 4MB and it is 5MB : https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dwyl/english-words/master/words.txt 

Code:

#include <File.au3>

$Letters = InputBox("Letters","Input the letters you have.","","")
If @error Then Exit

$File_Words = @ScriptDir&"\words.txt"
$Words = "Words:"

$Amount = StringLen($Letters)

$lines = _FileCountLines($File_Words)
ProgressOn("Searching...","","")
ProgressSet(0)

For $i = 0 To $Amount
    $string = StringTrimRight($Letters,$i)
    For $j = 1 To $lines
        ProgressSet($lines/$j)
        If FileReadLine($File_Words,$j) = $string Then
            $Words = $Words&@CRLF&$string
        EndIf
    Next
Next
MsgBox(0,'',$Words)

 

[FrancescoDiMuro]

@kingjacob90
Sorry for the question, but what's your goal?
Could you please make an example?
Thanks

[kingjacob90]

@FrancescoDiMuro

The goal is to be able to put in a whole lot of random letters and the program will see if it can make a work out of them like the game scrabble.

[Skeletor]

@kingjacob90 , this is what I prefer. Simple code to do weird stuff... you dont have to be complex in you code. 

Well done on this one... 

btw, you have another user named @kingjacob280.. with the same profile picture and everything... that also you? 

[kingjacob90]

@Skeletor Problem is this code does not actually work, it takes to long for it to do anything. And yeah thats weird must have been from years ago.

[caramen]

1 hour ago, kingjacob90 said:

Why cant it work just like the find function

Becose you're not using String compare

 

1 hour ago, kingjacob90 said:

and how does the find function in many programs work so efficiently?

They just do string comparaison on some simple sub string with maybe 500 - 1000 Entry

Dont forget that a page with 1 500 words can have 200 different words only... maybe less... 

 

If you got a file with all existing words. 200 000 Words for english language. 

 

It will take a bit more time to compare  ... Pretty obvius ? (particulary if you want to have all know words with same characters. that's more calcul./././ )

 

 

.... and say the real purpose of your script. 

What do you want to do exactly ? Find all possible words of given characters to be able to play scrabble online  ?

Edited October 11, 2018 by caramen

[careca]

I think it would be faster if you read all lines to an array and then work with it instead of reading line by line from the file for each query you make.

Also, maybe ditch the string trim, and use stringinstr.