Kyle Hendrickson Posted March 27, 2009 Share Posted March 27, 2009 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dantay9 Posted March 27, 2009 Share Posted March 27, 2009 Spell Checker Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyle Hendrickson Posted March 27, 2009 Author Share Posted March 27, 2009 Spell CheckerThanks. 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpookMeister Posted March 27, 2009 Share Posted March 27, 2009 [u]Helpful tips:[/u]If you want better answers to your questions, take the time to reproduce your issue in a small "stand alone" example script whenever possible. Also, make sure you tell us 1) what you tried, 2) what you expected to happen, and 3) what happened instead.[u]Useful links:[/u]BrettF's update to LxP's "How to AutoIt" pdfValuater's Autoit 1-2-3 Download page for the latest versions of Autoit and SciTE[quote]<glyph> For example - if you came in here asking "how do I use a jackhammer" we might ask "why do you need to use a jackhammer"<glyph> If the answer to the latter question is "to knock my grandmother's head off to let out the evil spirits that gave her cancer", then maybe the problem is actually unrelated to jackhammers[/quote] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyle Hendrickson Posted March 27, 2009 Author Share Posted March 27, 2009 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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