Capitilization and OSX dictionary
Capitilization and OSX dictionary
- Subject: Capitilization and OSX dictionary
- From: Matthew Stuckwisch <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2002 23:46:23 -0500
Okay, this is probably not entirely necessary for my app, but it would be
a nice nuance to have (and I post here instead of AS Studio because this
doesn't deal with the interface).
I did the following: set theReturn to do shell script "perl " & POSIX
path of (path to me) & "/Contents/Resources/random.pl"
random.pl is a perl script designed to access the main two dictionary
files for OSX and randomly choose a word or phrase from them (AppleScript
can't handle over 5000 items in a list...no way it can do over 230 000).
However, if you look at the file /usr/share/dict/web2 and /usr/share/dict/
web2a you'll notice that most of the words aren't capitilized. I don't
like that :P
Any quick and dirty way to capitalize words that should be (eg, no "in, of,
a, an, the" if they're not at the beginning) sans OSAX? Reason I ask is
that web2a files has phrases, so I can't just capitalize the first letter
(which would be pretty easy). Of course, I'm probably going to get an
answer so simple I'm going to feel even stupider than I already do after
today (but that's an entire 'nother story...too long for lists).
Thanks
Matthew Stuckwisch
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