Re: [seul-edu] spell checker logic -- comments please

[Bill Tihen -- TECHNOLOGY <bill@mail.tasis.ch>]

Quoting Ian Bicking <ian@chicagonet.net>:
> I imagine ispell should be able to deal with all the
words at once

Your right I just tried:
   echo "thiis asdfasdf  is cooll" | ispell -a
and got the folowing  results:
   @(#) International Ispell Version 3.1.20 10/10/95
   & thiis 2 0: thins, this
   # asdfasdf 6
   *
   & cooll 3 19: cool, coolly, cools

So identifying misspellings should be easy.  I guess in
if I just display the misspellings on a separate page --
and leave the original alone -- then the person can see
both and I can italizice the mispellings or boldface
them or something.  In this way I think I should be able
to avoid most of the complicated stuff.

Can someone tell me if there is a "safe" way to send
data to ispell using perl?  

However, I still think it would be cool if there was a
perl module that allowed someone to spell check a web
form and prompted the user for corrections and updated
the original page.  The first option is workable, but
the "fancy" version would be nice.

Bill

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