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Use Dictionary.app
You can use the words from the built in Dictionary.
If you're from the UK, Australia, NZ or another English speaking country apart from the US you may be out of luck.
Use Dictionary.app
a faster version:
Perl version
While I think I understand the Perl code, it does not find anything (as opposed to the original version of the hint).
Though I cannot find the -n and -e flags in man perl, I assume the command simply calls Perl with the supplied file as the default input argument and executes the actual Perl code. I guess the while condition is some fancy regular expressions code that simply chops up the dictionary file into individual words, stores each word in $a and compares $a with $text and prints it if it finds a match. However, I think somewhere the reading of library file does not work, as the following simplified code should just read the file 'Untitled.txt' and print its contents: perl -n -e 'while(/"]+"[^>"]+"[^>"]+"([^>"]+)"/g) { print $1,"n"; }' ~/Desktop/Untitled.txt
Perl version
I should mention that this works for 10.4. I haven't upgraded yet, just about backed up and ready to go. So the 10.5 dictionary may be in a different place and may be a different format.
The command switches are documented in "man perlrun". -n makes perl read the input file in a while loop until the file is read completely. -e indicates the next argument is a script. The regex looks for a pattern like which indicates an entry in the dictionary. The actual entry word is between the last 2 double quotes which is caught by the brackets and referenced by the $1 in the while loop. The /g modifier at the end of the regex allows the while loop to loop through the file. The $a is needed to retain the "word" through another regex. The backslash-b's makes the regex the equivalent of -w. Is that clear? Perl is a strange language.
Perl version
The dictionary indeed has a slightly different name in 10.5 but I corrected that already. |
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