[Nolug] Fwd: Perl 'Expert' Quiz-of-the-Week #9

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Brett
--- Mark Jason Dominus <mjd@plover.com> wrote:
> To: perl-qotw@plover.com
> Subject: Perl 'Expert' Quiz-of-the-Week #9
> Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 17:13:11 -0500
> From: Mark Jason Dominus <mjd@plover.com>
>
>
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> ----------------------------------------------------------------
>
> You will write an interactive spelling checker program, named 'yspel'.
>
> The spelling checker will behave just like the 'spel' program
> described in the regular quiz of the week, with the following changes:
>
> 1 'yspel' will not read the document to be checked from the standard
> input; it will use the command-line arguments only. It will edit
> these files in-place to correct misspellings as directed by the
> user.
>
> 2 'yspel' will not produce a list of misspelled words on output.
> Instead, for each (possibly) misspelled word it will prompt the user
> with the context of the misspelling and a menu of possible
> alternative words.
>
> 3 If the user selects one of these alternatives, 'yspel' will replace
> the mispelled word with the selected alternative.
>
> 4 The menu will also include four special options:
>
> 1. Replace thee word in the document with an alternative that
> wasn't on the menu
>
> 2. Add the 'mispelled' word to the user's private dictionary,
> in the '.spel' file in their home directory, and ignore all
> future appearances of this word in the document
>
> 3. Ignore all future appearances of this word in the document,
> but don't add the word to the dictionary
>
> 4. Ignore this appearance of this word, but continue to flag
> it if it appears again in the same document
>
>
> * * *
>
> P.S.: I'm sorry that this week's quiz (and last week's reports) are
> late. I was detained all through Tuesday and Wednesday by other
> business. I hope to send out last week's reports tonight.
>
> P.P.S: Yesterday was Perl's 15th birthday. Happy birthday, Perl!
>
>
> Mark-Jason Dominus mjd@plover.com
>
>
>

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