Dictionary lookup and duplicate word search

[Kyle Hendrickson]

I am trying to write an AutoIT v3 script that acts similar to the spell check feature in a word processor. If someone has already created such a script, please point me to it. If not, any high-level design suggestions would be appreciated. For example, should I create a dictionary in an array and then read in each word, one at a time, from the file to be checked and compare the word to the array? Or, is there a better way to do this? I would also love any pointers on how to search and remove any duplicate words from a text file - no matter where the words exist within the file (i.e., I'm not jus looking for a way to remove duplicate words that are adjacent to each other). Any advice is greatly appreciated.

[dantay9]

Spell Checker

[Kyle Hendrickson]

Spell Checker

Thanks. I should have clarified, I want the ability to check a file or text string against my own custom dictionary. For example, I'd like the ability to check a document ro string of text to see if all words in the document are in a Klingon dictonary.

[SpookMeister]

[Kyle Hendrickson]

Thanks for your helpful tips, but they don't seem applicable to what I'm after. I'm not trying to troubleshoot code. I haven't written any code, yet. I was looking for general design guidance on how to write a program that could be used as a spell checker. I've searched the forums and found some a bit of guidance related to this, but nothing that seems to satisfy what I'm trying to do. I was trying to avoid what I see so many people do, which is dive in, try this and try that, get stuck then ask for help, then get people critcize the developer for the general way they are trying to tackle the problem. But, it doesn't seem like anyone has any high-level thoughts, which is fine, on how to do what I'm trying to do so, I guess I'll just, dive in, try this and try that, get stuck, then ask for help.