I'm about to write a spell checker as part of a content-management system for a website. I looked at the Text::Ispell and Text::Pspell, and I like the looks of the former a bit more - I find the interface a bit more intuitive, and it seems to do useful things that the latter doesn't, such as parsing a whole text string rather than just spell checking a single word.

But before I start I'd be very grateful for any observations from sibling monks, particularly

• is there some other module that I haven't unearthed which would be worth looking at?
• should I worry that the last revision of Text::Ispell was almost three years ago?
• any other words of wisdom before I launch myself into the void (warning: useless use of perl hacker in void context)

§ George Sherston

Edited: ~Tue Jul 23 15:42:38 2002 (GMT), by footpad:Added missing </ul> tag (and revised formatting for improved XML parsability).

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