Find words which contains more than 3 e vowels
- Task
Use the dictionary unixdict.txt
Find words which contains more than three e vowels and contains only e vowels.
REXX
This REXX version doesn't care what order the words in the dictionary are in, nor does it care what
case (lower/upper/mixed) the words are in, the search for the words and vowels is caseless.
It also allows the minimum number of vowels to be specified on the command line (CL) as well as the dictionary file identifier. <lang rexx>/*REXX pgm finds words (within an identified dict.) which contain more than three "e"s.*/ parse arg char many iFID . /*obtain optional arguments from the CL*/ if char== | char=="," then char= 'e' /*Not specified? Then use the default.*/ if many== | many=="," then many= 4 /* " " " " " " */ if iFID== | iFID=="," then iFID='unixdict.txt' /* " " " " " " */ chrU= char; upper chrU /*obtain an uppercase version of char.*/
do #=1 while lines(iFID)\==0 /*read each word in the file (word=X).*/ x= strip( linein( iFID) ) /*pick off a word from the input line. */ @.#= x /*save: the original case of the word.*/ end /*#*/ /* [↑] semaphore name is uppercased. */
- = # - 1 /*adjust word count because of DO loop.*/
say copies('─', 30) # "words in the dictionary file: " iFID finds= 0 /*count of the "eeee" words found. */
do j=1 for #; $= @.j /*process all the words that were found*/ upper $ /*uppercase it for caseless finds. */ if pos(chrU, $)==0 then iterate /*At least 1 vowel found? No, then skip*/ if countstr(chrU, $) < many then iterate /*Have enough vowels? " " " */ finds= finds + 1 /*bump the count of "ABC" words found. */ say right(left(@.j, 30), 40) /*indent original word for readability.*/ end /*j*/ /*stick a fork in it, we're all done. */
say copies('─', 30) finds ' "e" words found using the characters: ' many "'e'"</lang>
- output when using the default inputs:
────────────────────────────── 25104 words in the dictionary file: unixdict.txt accelerometer belvedere betelgeuse centerpiece cheerleader cheesecake decelerate degenerate dereference desegregate electroencephalogram electroencephalograph electroencephalography elsewhere entrepreneur entrepreneurial ephemerides erlenmeyer evergreen everywhere exegete experience eyepiece freewheel genevieve heterogeneity heterogeneous inexperience interference interferometer interviewee irredeemable leeuwenhoek minesweeper nevertheless perseverance persevere preference referee refereeing reprehensible representative reverberate seventeen seventeenth speedometer squeegee steeplechase teleconference telemeter teletypesetting teletypewrite tennessee weatherbeaten wheresoever ────────────────────────────── 55 "e" words found using the characters: 4 'e'
Ring
<lang ring> load "stdlib.ring"
cStr = read("unixdict.txt") wordList = str2list(cStr) char = list(9) nextwords = [] nr = 0 num = 0
see "working..." + nl
ln = len(wordList) for n = ln to 1 step -1
if len(wordList[n]) < 6 del(wordList,n) ok
next
see "Words are:" + nl
for n = 1 to len(wordList)
num = 0 flag = 1 for m = 1 to len(wordList[n]) if isvowel(wordList[n][m]) if wordList[n][m] != "e" flag = 0 exit else num = num + 1 ok ok next if flag = 1 and num > 3 nr = nr + 1 see "" + nr + ". " + wordList[n] + nl ok
next
see "done..." + nl </lang> Output:
working... Words are: 1. belvedere 2. dereference 3. elsewhere 4. erlenmeyer 5. evergreen 6. everywhere 7. exegete 8. freewheel 9. nevertheless 10. persevere 11. preference 12. referee 13. seventeen 14. seventeenth 15. telemeter 16. tennessee done...