Hi, I'm wondering if Aspell has the following feature implemented.
Given a string S, can it match "^S" (interpreted as a regex) against all entries of a given dictionary? I'm looking for a boolean as output, so the actual list of matches is extra. Examples: Let S be "te", and the language be english. Then it outputs true, since it would match "test" or "television". Notice that it wouldn't match "date" or "protein". When S is "ghb", it outputs false. This is equivalent to having a dictionary, i.e. a list of words of a given language, and matching using a regex. That could easily be achieved with a file containing the dictionary and grep. But it feels that I'm reinventing the wheel. I'd like to leverage the fact that aspell already provides the dictionary. The "closer" I get, with multiple obvious issues, is by using expand: $ echo ghb/ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ | aspell -l en expand Thank you. -- André A. Gomes "Free Thought, Free World"
