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Homework and Emergencies Homework & Coursework Questions spell checker script Post 302470369 by Jeffthrow5 on Wednesday 10th of November 2010 12:33:36 AM
Old 11-10-2010
spell checker script
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1. The problem statement, all variables and given/known data:
When "niuspell" is invoked from the command line it reads "file" and checks it for spelling of the words it contains. For each word that is found to be incorrect, the invoker is asked for either:
  • to insist on the spelling of the word.
  • to provide a replacement spelling
If the invoker insists on the spelling of the word, then niuspell will remember it. niuspell remembers words in the file ".niuspelled" in the invoker's home directory. Any further invocation of niuspell by the same invoker will consider the word to be correct. Otherwise, the invoker is prompted for a replacement spelling. As output, niuspell produces a 2-column-ed list of words, the left column lists incorrectly spelled words, the right column lists their replacement as given by the invoker. The list is produced after the invoker has answered to all incorrectly spelled words....



Everything works fine except the "insisted on words" appear in the "misspelled" column after the first invocation and they are not supposed to. The subsequent invocations don't list the insisted on words in the column, just the actual misspelled words. Any help will be appreciated.




2. Relevant commands, code, scripts, algorithms:



3. The attempts at a solution (include all code and scripts):
Code:
!# /bin/bash

#variables
corSpel=()
let count=1

#array for spell checker
checker=(`ispell -l -p ~/.checked < $1`)

echo ""

#for loop to correct mispelled words
for i in ${checker[*]}; do
        read -p "$i is mispelled. Press \"Enter\" to keep
this spelling, or type a correction here: " corIn
        if [[ "$corIn" = "" ]] ; then
                echo $i >> ~/.niuspelled
        else
                corSpel[$count]=$corIn
        fi
 count+=1
echo ""
done

#for loop to print the corrected words
printf "MISPELLED %20s\n" CORRECTIONS
echo ""
let counter=1
for i in ${checker[*]}; do
        printf "%-20s%s\n" "$i" "${corSpel[$counter]}"            
 counter+=1
done

4. Complete Name of School (University), City (State), Country, Name of Professor, and Course Number (Link to Course):
Northern Illinois University, Mr. Ege, csci 330

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LEARN ABOUT V7

debconf-mergetemplate

DEBCONF-MERGETEMPLATE(1)					      Debconf						  DEBCONF-MERGETEMPLATE(1)

NAME

       debconf-mergetemplate - merge together multiple debconf template files

SYNOPSIS

	debconf-mergetemplate [options] [templates.ll ...] templates

DESCRIPTION

       Note: This utility is deprecated. You should switch to using po-debconf's po2debconf program.

       This program is useful if you have multiple debconf templates files which you want to merge together into one big file. All the specified
       files will be read in, merged, and output to standard output.

       This can be especially useful if you are dealing with translated template files. In this case, you might have your main template file, plus
       several other files provided by the translators. These files will have translated fields in them, and maybe the translators left in the
       english versions of the fields they translated, for their reference.

       So, you want to merge together all the translated templates files with your main templates file. Any fields that are unique to the
       translated files need to be added in to the correct templates, but any fields they have in common should be superseded by the fields in the
       main file (which might be more up-to-date).

       This program handles that case properly, just list each of the translated templates files, and then your main templates file last.

OPTIONS

       --outdated
	   Merge in even outdated translations. The default is to drop them with a warning message.

       --drop-old-templates
	   If a translation has an entire template that is not in the master file (and thus is probably an old template), drop that entire
	   template.

SEE ALSO

       debconf-getlang(1)

AUTHOR

       Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>

								    2012-09-10						  DEBCONF-MERGETEMPLATE(1)
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