Ieronim,
I first posted untested code because I was about to leave work and DBM::Deep takes forever to build the database. I have subsequently updated it to use a recursive BFS, optimized the build_db() routine, and verified it works correctly. I hope you enjoy though it is much slower than I hoped due to requiring a BFS to find the shortest path. 
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use DBM::Deep;
use Text::LevenshteinXS 'distance';

my $db = DBM::Deep->new('dict.db');
build_db($db) if ! scalar keys %$db;

my ($src, $tgt) = @ARGV;
# Error handle defined, length, exist in $db and distance() > 1

my $len  = length($tgt);
my $list = $db->{$len};

my $path = find_path($src, $tgt, $list);
print "$path\n";

sub find_path {
    my ($src, $tgt, $list, $seen, $work) = @_;
    @$work = map {key => $_ => path => "$src->$_"}, @{$list->{$src}} i
+f ! defined $work;
    my $next = [];    
    for (@$work) {
        my ($word, $path) = @{$_}{qw/key path/};
        next if $seen->{$word}++;
        return $path if $word eq $tgt;
        push @$next, map {key => $_, path => "$path->$_"}, @{$list->{$
+word}};
    }
    return find_path($src, $tgt, $list, $seen, $next) if @$next;
    return 'path not found';
}

sub build_db {
    my $db = shift @_;
    open (my $dict, '<', '2of12.txt') or die "Unable to open '2of12.tx
+t' for reading: $!";
    my %data;

    while (<$dict>) {
        chomp;
        push @{$data{length()}}, $_;
    }
    for my $len (keys %data) {
        my $end = $#{$data{$len}};
        for my $i (0 .. $end - 1) {
            my $word = $data{$len}[$i];
            for my $j ($i + 1 .. $end) {
                my $test = $data{$len}[$j];
                if (distance($word, $test) == 1) {
                    push @{$db->{$len}{$word}}, $test;
                    push @{$db->{$len}{$test}}, $word;
                }
            }
        }
    }
}

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You also have a bug: try 'foot' and 'fool'

Cheers - L~R

In reply to Re: Play and win the word morph game with the help of Perl :) by Limbic~Region
in thread Play and win the word morph game with the help of Perl :) by Ieronim

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