unix dict on win32?

Anonymous Monk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I'm working on a perl script and I want to look up words to see if they match results of permutations... but the only examples I've seen of matching in perl use /usr/dict/words. I'm stuck on a windows NT machine, using active state perl. Is there anything similar available? Thanks, liz

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Re: unix dict on win32? by chipmunk (Parson) on May 03, 2001 at 07:10 UTC
Other good word lists include: ENABLE (scroll down to find it on the page) The Moby Project (also includes a thesaurus, a pronunciator, and other fun stuff)	[reply]
Re: unix dict on win32? by Rudif (Hermit) on May 03, 2001 at 02:09 UTC
look here, or google yourself HTH Rudif	[reply]
Re: unix dict on win32? by mr.nick (Chaplain) on May 03, 2001 at 06:49 UTC
If you are looking for something to fuzzy match strings, I'd suggest String::Approx.	[reply]
Re: unix dict on win32? by the_slycer (Chaplain) on May 03, 2001 at 07:58 UTC
Just had to throw my 2 cents in. The biggest word lists that I have found are normally on fanatical scrabble players sites. You might try running some searches on those kinds of places :-)	[reply]
Re: Re: unix dict on win32? by Anonymous Monk on May 04, 2001 at 00:00 UTC
Thank you ALL! All of the sites mentioned are just what I was looking for - now, to decide which one to use... liz	[reply]