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

[Cameron Browne <cameronb@optusnet.com.au>]

Hi Douglas,

Have a look at lingo.cpp, in particular:

  bool CLingo::LoadWords(void)

This function loads the Scramble dictionary as a simple text file 
into an array of strings in memory. Easy!

Cameron


At 11:55 PM 5/19/2006, Douglas Zander wrote:
> 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.
>
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