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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Shell Sript - Spell Checker Assign Post 302144714 by ccfc1986 on Friday 9th of November 2007 10:46:02 AM
Old 11-09-2007
Shell Sript - Spell Checker Assign
Hi Folks. I am currently working on a script that has to spell check a file and print the output to the screen in 2 columns like this.

INCORRECT CORRECTION
whio who
weahter weather

The file will allow the user to override the ispell command and save any 'incorrect' words as 'correct' into a memory file which would then be used in any other runs of the script (as a dictionary file).

The code i currently have has a problem with it... and i cant figure it out for the life of me. Here is the code/script that i have written so far.


Code:
#!/bin/sh
# script that will spell check a file

#if user tries to quit, will say so, then quit on second attempt
trap "echo You are trying to exit; exit" 2


array=`ispell -l -p $HOME/memory.txt < $1`

correct=()
incorrect=""
let counter=1

for i in $array; do
        read -p "$i is mispelled. Press "Enter" to keep spelling, or type a correction here: " correction
        if [[$correction=""]] ; then
                echo $i >> $HOME/memory.txt
        else
                $correct[$counter]=$correction
        fi
let counter+=1
done

#prints the information
echo "CORRECTION       INCORRECT"
let count=1
for i in $array; do
        echo ${correct[$count]}        $i
let count+=1
done

For this code i get this output while runing:


sh-3.1$ ./wordspell testfile
hellio is mispelled. Press Enter to keep spelling, or type a correction here: hello
./wordspell: line 14: [[hello=]]: command not found
./wordspell: line 17: [1]=hello: command not found
whio is mispelled. Press Enter to keep spelling, or type a correction here: who
./wordspell: line 14: [[who=]]: command not found
./wordspell: line 17: [2]=who: command not found
wheter is mispelled. Press Enter to keep spelling, or type a correction here: weather
./wordspell: line 14: [[weather=]]: command not found
./wordspell: line 17: [3]=weather: command not found
CORRECTION INCORRECT
hellio
whio
wheter

I was wondering how i could sort out the line 14/17 errors. I have thought it would be something like missing () or {} in the array. But still no luck. Any ideas? Also, as you can see i want to print the correction, and the incorrect word (i have 2 arrays set, correct and incorrect which should contain the words for each). How would i get them to print out in columns like i have shown? Once i have this, i have another couple of things to code which im unsure of, but i will try after i get thsi first obstacle out of the way.

Thanks in advance
 

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LEARN ABOUT BSD

spellin

SPELL(1)						      General Commands Manual							  SPELL(1)

NAME

       spell, spellin, spellout - find spelling errors

SYNOPSIS

       spell [ -v ] [ -b ] [ -x ] [ -d hlist ] [ -s hstop ] [ -h spellhist ] [ file ] ...

       spellin [ list ]

       spellout [ -d ] list

DESCRIPTION

       Spell  collects words from the named documents, and looks them up in a spelling list.  Words that neither occur among nor are derivable (by
       applying certain inflections, prefixes or suffixes) from words in the spelling list are printed on the standard output.	If  no	files  are
       named, words are collected from the standard input.

       Spell ignores most troff, tbl and eqn(1) constructions.

       Under the -v option, all words not literally in the spelling list are printed, and plausible derivations from spelling list words are indi-
       cated.

       Under the -b option, British spelling is checked.  Besides preferring centre, colour, speciality, travelled, etc., this option insists upon
       -ise in words like standardise, Fowler and the OED to the contrary notwithstanding.

       Under the -x option, every plausible stem is printed with `=' for each word.

       The  spelling list is based on many sources.  While it is more haphazard than an ordinary dictionary, it is also more effective with proper
       names and popular technical words.  Coverage of the specialized vocabularies of biology, medicine and chemistry is light.

       The auxiliary files used for the spelling list, stop list, and history file may be specified by arguments following  the  -d,  -s,  and	-h
       options.   The  default files are indicated below.  Copies of all output may be accumulated in the history file.  The stop list filters out
       misspellings (e.g. thier=thy-y+ier) that would otherwise pass.

       Two routines help maintain the hash lists used by spell.  Both expect a set of words, one per line, from the standard input.  Spellin  com-
       bines  the  words  from	the standard input and the preexisting list file and places a new list on the standard output.	If no list file is
       specified, the new list is created from scratch.  Spellout looks up each word from the standard input and prints  on  the  standard  output
       those that are missing from (or present on, with option -d) the hashed list file.  For example, to verify that hookey is not on the default
       spelling list, add it to your own private list, and then use it with spell,

	      echo  hookey  |  spellout  /usr/dict/hlista
	      echo  hookey  |  spellin	/usr/dict/hlista  >  myhlist
	      spell  -d  myhlist  huckfinn

FILES

       /usr/dict/hlist[ab] hashed spelling lists, American & British, default for -d
       /usr/dict/hstop		hashed stop list, default for -s
       /dev/null      history file, default for -h
       /tmp/spell.$$*	   temporary files
       /usr/libexec/spell

SEE ALSO

       deroff(1), sort(1), tee(1), sed(1)

BUGS

       The spelling list's coverage is uneven; new installations will probably wish to monitor the output for several months to gather local addi-
       tions.
       British spelling was done by an American.

7th Edition							 October 22, 1996							  SPELL(1)
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