On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 11:32:59AM -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > In <880dece00911280713n6193b8das6970e8a071fc2...@mail.gmail.com>, Dotan Cohen > wrote: > >Is there a way to grep the output of strings in order to only show > >lines that contain words found in the aspell dictionary? Thanks in > >advance. > > I once wrote a small program against the aspell API to do something like > that. > If you know C, you should be able to do something similar. If you don't know > C, beg, borrow, or pay for some time from a C programmer.
ISTM that because the output of strings is not discrete list of potential words, but is instead a long list of concatenated characters, this problem is really rather daunting. The output should probably be first broken up into something resembling words by perhaps breaking on non-alphabetic characters. That should do two things: 1) get you somthing that resembles words to actually test and 2) somewhat smaller set of "stuff" to check. This won't necessarily handle "compound" words though where two word-like things are jammed together, or an actual word is embedded within a string of nonsense. I think this problem is potentially rather harder than I thought when I saw OP's original question. A
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