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From: MitchellWmA on 29 Mar 2007 08:19 After intensive searching found an app to almost do what I need. I'm mentioning it only to give an example. $ware Super Text Search v2.8 will search text files in a folder for text strings http://www.galcott.com/textsrch.gif http://www.digitalriver.com/dr/v2/ec_MAIN.Entry10?xid=22609&PN=1&SP=10023&V1=187027&CID=137331&CUR=124&DSP=&PGRP=0&ABCODE=&CACHE_ID=0 but it can't find all words beginning with a letter and ending with another letter. i.e., the best it can seem to do is this - when I tested it by asking for "s*e" to see if it could find "software" or "smile" or safe" (in its own text string search format, of course), it only could return things like "she", "see" and "sue". No wildcard that I could find could pull up words with more than 1 letter in between the start and end. So I'm stumped. If anyone knows of something that can do this please let me know. The text string search programs I've tried don't do this. Or if they can, they don't display the text easily in a list. They just pull up a list of files that you have to open and then hunt around for the word(s). After 2 days looking and looking every spare moment I'm bugging the group again. tia :)
From: jmatt on 29 Mar 2007 07:54 On Mar 29, 8:19 pm, MitchellWmA <nospamm...(a)nonsense.com> wrote: > but it can't find all words beginning with a letter and ending with > another letter. Why not do a search with the 1st & last letter missing.
From: MitchellWMA on 29 Mar 2007 11:41 On Mar 29, 7:54 am, j...(a)webace.com.au wrote: > On Mar 29, 8:19 pm,MitchellWmA<nospamm...(a)nonsense.com> wrote: > > > but it can't find all words beginning with a letter and ending with > > another letter. > > Why not do a search with the 1st & last letter missing. Okay, you lost me *lol*. There would _be_ no search without the first and last letter. Guess I didn't explain well. In any given puzzle, in this case specifically, a syllacrostic, I'll have the beginning letter and the last letter as a definite. What I must do is find words that begin and end with those letters to be able to build the puzzle. Though I didn't mention it because I didn't want to confuse the issue, the word lists involved are very large. I currently have about 10 of them, one which has over 169,000 words to give you an example. I need to find the words fitting the above criteria. Without the first and last letter, I'm left with nothing to search for so it's kind of difficult to see what you mean *lol*. I expect it's a case of not having thought it through on your part. Also a simple windows search doesn't cut it either for the very same reason. There are going to be words on those 10 word lists that fit the bill so I should get several words coming out of each for each search. So a windows search is silly because it doesn't tell me anything and no words are listed so I'm right back to square one. I need something like Super Text Search that will list the actual words in an easily viewable format. It does that. What it doesn't do, _it_seems_, is find the longer words. I'll illustrate s*e again. A text string wilcard search starting with 's' and ending with 'e' should bring up a variety of words like this: software smile she science safe snake spike secrete systematize sacrifice sponge They all begin with an 's' and end in an 'e' but are all very different. Leaving off the first and last letter wouldn't help here. Anyway I'll keep searching for a freeware for this of course. It's just that if someone knows of something already it'd be nice to know of it. It might happen like the text stats where there wasn't a good solution to that software need but I won't know if I don't ask. Surprising though that a $ware program doesn't seem to do this. Everything I tried, at any rate didn't bring up these words only ones that had one letter in between. The help file didn't contain anything about wildcard searches either. Not so Super a text search $ware, if you ask me *g*.
From: Susan Bugher on 29 Mar 2007 12:04 MitchellWMA wrote: > In any given puzzle, in this case specifically, a syllacrostic, I'll > have the beginning letter and the last letter as a definite. What I > must do is find words that begin and end with those letters to be able > to build the puzzle. TheSage has an anagram search: http://www.pricelesswarehome.org/2007/PL2007BUSINESS-HOME.php#3895-PW Anagram apps are here: http://www.pricelesswarehome.org/acf/P_BUSINESS-HOME.php#3.03Anagrams I suggest Word Search (KISS) and LeXpert (power users) for openers in your review of what's available. Program: Word Search Author: Stephen Hassall Ware: (Freeware) (free for personal use/ educational use) http://www.sover.net/~wysiwygx/index.html http://www.sover.net/~wysiwygx/Games.html http://www.pricelesswarehome.org/SOS/wdsearch.zip 315 KB Program: LeXpert Company: Smartsoft Author: Carol and Ravi G. Ravichandran Ware: (Freeware) (free for personal use) http://www.carolravi.com/ http://www.carolravi.com/ScrWeb/LeXpert/ http://www.mgravi.com/ScrWeb/Downloads/LXP321.exe 2085 KB Susan -- Posted to alt.comp.freeware Search alt.comp.freeware (or read it online): http://www.google.com/advanced_group_search?q=+group:alt.comp.freeware Pricelessware & ACF: http://www.pricelesswarehome.org Pricelessware: http://www.pricelessware.org (not maintained)
From: MitchellWMA on 29 Mar 2007 12:56
On Mar 29, 12:04 pm, Susan Bugher <sebug...(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > MitchellWMAwrote: > > In any given puzzle, in this case specifically, a syllacrostic, I'll > > have the beginning letter and the last letter as a definite. What I > > must do is find words that begin and end with those letters to be able > > to build the puzzle. > > TheSage has an anagram search:http://www.pricelesswarehome.org/2007/PL2007BUSINESS-HOME.php#3895-PW > > Anagram apps are here:http://www.pricelesswarehome.org/acf/P_BUSINESS-HOME.php#3.03Anagrams > > I suggest Word Search (KISS) and LeXpert (power users) for openers in > your review of what's available. > > Program: Word Search > Author: Stephen Hassall > Ware: (Freeware) (free for personal use/ educational use)http://www.sover.net/~wysiwygx/index.htmlhttp://www.sover.net/~wysiwygx/Games.htmlhttp://www.pricelesswarehome.org/SOS/wdsearch.zip > 315 KB > > Program: LeXpert > Company: Smartsoft > Author: Carol and Ravi G. Ravichandran > Ware: (Freeware) (free for personal use)http://www.carolravi.com/http://www.carolravi.com/ScrWeb/LeXpert/http://www.mgravi.com/ScrWeb/Downloads/LXP321.exe > 2085 KB > > Susan Wow, excellent. I'll check these out. I know that Sage is too large for my thumb drive. I installed it at home and have it there, but I'll try the others. If Word Search works, it also happens to be a nice size *g*. Will report back. *keeping fingers crossed* Hope they can read my word list files without importing and such. These word lists are what my puzzle programs can be loaded with so don't want to have to start maintaining a whole bunch of other sources of words. Thanks Susan. *grin* |