There and back again… a tale of spellcheck more than 3 words long - 06/27/08 02:25 PM
Thanks for the warm welcome. I feel like singing in the rain. (Love puns!)
On the surface, spellcheck seems like a pretty easy problem to solve. You take some text, split it into words, then check each word against the dictionary. Fantastically easy. They shouldn't pay me for this stuff. But computers delight in twisting seemingly simple problems into complex nightmares.
Fun fact: Splitting text into actual words requires roughly 50 rules. Consider punctuation: we have to remove certain marks (periods, exclamation points) but leave others intact (apostrophe). HTML tags also need to be removed while keeping the content safe. Does … (14 comments)

Hello ActiveRain - 06/27/08 11:16 AM
I fixed spellcheck.
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