Word Unscrambler Description
Remember in junior high when your social studies teacher would give you unscramble-the-jumble-of-word worksheets for "fun" aka part of your grade? Well if you get stuck, there's no need to worry anymore. Word Unscrambler takes your toughest jumble of words and finds the solution before your assignment is due.
So, your teacher just offered you extra credit if only you could figure out what word some set of letters represented before they were scrambled into random order. How are you supposed to do that, even to save your grade?
While my GF was busy playing an online word scramble game, I decided to automate the process. I managed to get the initial script working in a few minutes then started to play with optimizing it. I managed to get a speed improvement of a factor of 6. Anyone have any further suggestions? For instance, is the regexp the right way to go? The dictionary used was a master dump from aspell for anyone who actually tries it out; one word per line. The letters to be unscrambled should be provided as space seperated command line arguments. (Stating the obvious I know!)
So, your teacher just offered you extra credit if only you could figure out what word some set of letters represented before they were scrambled into random order. How are you supposed to do that, even to save your grade?
While my GF was busy playing an online word scramble game, I decided to automate the process. I managed to get the initial script working in a few minutes then started to play with optimizing it. I managed to get a speed improvement of a factor of 6. Anyone have any further suggestions? For instance, is the regexp the right way to go? The dictionary used was a master dump from aspell for anyone who actually tries it out; one word per line. The letters to be unscrambled should be provided as space seperated command line arguments. (Stating the obvious I know!)
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