NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #18/NN_1992_18.iso/spool/comp/unix/question/10107

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From: [e-mail] (Michael Todd Glazier)
Subject: Using Awk in a Scrabble(c) Utility.
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I'm a novice Unix dude trying to write a tiny (and very messy)
Unix util that takes a list of letters as the parameter and
makes as many words out of those letters as it can, !BUT!, with
out using any letters twice, unless they are specified in the
list of letters.

Here's what I've done, or perhaps I should say, learned to do, so far.


$ cat sc
cat /usr/dict/web2 | egrep '^['$1']['$1']?['$1']? etc (repeated for as many
squares across a scrabble board is.)

What I get is close to what I need. It does give me all the words that
that $1 makes up, but it uses any letters it feels like more than once.

What I'd like to do is make second filter, I think it'll have to be awk,
that'll check the words against the letters input, and keep the words that
supposed to duplicate letters, get the rid of the one that shouldn't have
duplicate letters, and pass that on to STDOUT.

Or am I just in over my head?

BTW, I'm using NeXT Unix, which seems to me be pickier than most other flavors
of Unix.

Michael Todd
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