Re^2: Removing all non 8 letter words from the dict/words file

Read perlre!!!

Only words that do not include a capital, number, dash, or period:

while (<>)
{ print if /^[^A-Z0-9.-]+$/; }
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However, it's usually much easier to list the things you can include.

-QM
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Re^3: Removing all non 8 letter words from the dict/words file by /Silver_Wolf (Novice) on Apr 10, 2006 at 00:02 UTC
the only problem with that is that the lines that I want to include have only 1 thing different than the words I want: They are all lower case ...so I didn't think you could use lower case to sort the words. But by all means feel free to prove me wrong. Creating chaos out of order.	[reply]
Re^4: Removing all non 8 letter words from the dict/words file by QM (Parson) on Apr 10, 2006 at 00:17 UTC
Only lower case: `while (<>) { print if /^[a-z]+$/; }` [download] -QM -- Quantum Mechanics: The dreams stuff is made of	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^4: Removing all non 8 letter words from the dict/words file by unobe (Scribe) on Apr 10, 2006 at 00:24 UTC
I really don't understand what you mean by: the only problem with that is that the lines that I want to include have only 1 thing different than the words I want Could you please rephrase it? Also, you should really do what QM suggests, and read perlre, or even perlretut. They really do help, and it doesn't look like you have read either yet.	[reply]
Re^5: Removing all non 8 letter words from the dict/words file by /Silver_Wolf (Novice) on Apr 10, 2006 at 19:34 UTC
Sorry what I ment to say way "the only difference between the words I want and the ones I don't want." I'm a little sick and my brain isn't working very well at the moment. Creating chaos out of order.	[reply]