Word Search

[Fred Katzel]

Hi

I want to produce a word search routine where you might have
missing characters in the words. MSWORKS uses "???" to indi-
cate missing characters. How would you go about producing such
a routine?

Fred Katzel

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[Michael Mattias]

Somewhere around here is a "LIKE" function written by Dave Navarro for PB/Win (16 bit) but IIRC it should work in PB/DOS, too.

So you would parse out the "word" (space, comma delimited?) and ask if "is word LIKE("abc???def*") and there you go.

If you can't find it post here and I'll see if I can find and post it. (I know it is "somewhere" in my code library. Somewhere).

[Don Schullian]

michael,

yea, i thought so too. i remember d/loading something when i was
putting that anagram game together. i found a faster solution and
have thrown out the code (i guess, can't find it). i've searched
poffs can can't come up with anything there either but i know it
was on this forum somewhere/somewhen.

found it!

anyhow, this is where you start, fred. you have to run through the
alphabet for each missing character. better add the space in there
and maybe the hyphen. then you need a long list of words. there are
about 170,000 in the english language. i've got some or you can get
them from the web. once you've made up the test words a simple binary
search will quickly run through the list for you.


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[Arthur Gomide]

originally posted by michael mattias:
somewhere around here is a "like" function written by dave navarro ...

like function from vb

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arthur gomide
"if you think good architecture is expensive, try bad architecture." -- brian foote and joseph yoder

[this message has been edited by arthur gomide (edited may 14, 2007).]