Re: [pbmserv-dev] using the Scramble.word dictionary

[Ted Rathkopf <ted-pbmserv-lists@rathkopf.net>]

Douglas Zander <darthdoug_1999@yahoo.com> hired
an infinite number of monkeys to write:

> Thanks for your efforts Ted Rathkopf and Bob Lefleur.  I guess there
> are two different files.  One is a compressed binary file format in
> DAWG format and the other is a text file of the words?  I wish to
> simply check if a word is in the dictionary.  Now that I have
> Scramble6.words in the pbmserv/etc directory I guess I'll just use
> that.  I'm still not sure how I access that, but if it is a text
> file sorted alphabetically then I could just write a simple binary
> search to search the list?  Thanks for your help so far.

I'd take a look at lingo.  It loads the words from the words file (not
the dict file) and has the methods to search for them.

-- 
Ted Rathkopf