Achim Schneider wrote:
Andrew Coppin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I have a file that contains several thousand words, seperated by
white space. [I gather that on Unix there's a standard location for
this file?]
Looking at /usr/share/dict/words, I'm assured that the proper seperator
is \n.
Thanks. I did look around trying to find this, but ultimately failed.
(Is it a standard component, or is it installed as part of some specific
application?)
As I understand it, Haskell's "words" function will work on any kind of
white space - spaces, line feeds, caridge returns, tabs, etc. - so it
should be fine. ;-) Since I'm developing on Windows, what I actually did
was have Google find me a file online that I can download.
[Remember my post a while back? "GHC panic"? Apparently GHC doesn't like
it if you try to represent the entire 400 KB file as a single [String]...]
Generate a Map Int [String] map, with the latter list being an infinite
list of words with that particular size.
Now assume that you want to have a 100 character sentence. You start by
looking if you got any 100 character word, if yes it's your sentence,
if not you divide it in half (maybe offset by a weighted random
factor [1]) and start over again.
You can then specify your whole document along the lines of
(capitalise $ words 100) ++ ". " ++ (capitalise $ words 10) ++ "?" ++
(capitalise $ words 20) ++ "oneone1!"
[1] Random midpoint displacement is a very interesting topic by itself.
I'm not following your logic, sorry...
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