Re: "Near Miss" error handling?

Martin.Ward@durham.ac.uk (Martin Ward)
31 Mar 2001 02:46:07 -0500

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From: Martin.Ward@durham.ac.uk (Martin Ward)
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 31 Mar 2001 02:46:07 -0500
Organization: Compilers Central
Keywords: tools, editor
Posted-Date: 31 Mar 2001 02:46:07 EST

Gwyn Judd wrote:
> I'm writing (modifying actually) a compiler for my final undergraduate
> project and I've come across a feature I've never seen in a production
> compiler. basically when the compiler comes across an identifier it
> hasn't seen before, it will go through the list of known identifiers
> and try to determine which is the closest so it can then make a
> hopefully helpful suggestion on how to correct the error. ...


agrep-2.04 will search a list of words for the nearest match to a given word.
I use it all the time to check my spelling :-)


agrep -B -w word wordlist


You can download it from lots of places, eg:
ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/distfiles/agrep-2.04.tar.Z
ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/utils/text/agrep-2.04.tar.Z


Martin


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