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From: ebm@ibmarc.uucp (Eli Messinger)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.wanted
Subject: Dictionary word look-up
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Date: 21 Apr 89 21:29:53 GMT
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I'd like a C routine that takes a word list such as the standard
/usr/dict/words and performs word look-up, much as 'spell' does, but only one
word at a time.  It should do all the necessary munging to get plurals and
other pre- and suffixes.  Ideally there should be a single function call
isword(s), which returns true or false, depending on if the string s is a word.

I've had little luck trying to extract this function from 'spell' itself, but
if anyone has a suggestion as to how, that would also be appreciated.

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