Andrew Coppin
I have a file that contains several thousand words, seperated by white space. [I gather that on Unix there's a standard location for this file?]
Looking at /usr/share/dict/words, I'm assured that the proper seperator is \n.
Clearly, what I *should* have done is think more about a good abstraction before writing miles of code. ;-) So how would you guys do this?
Generate a Map Int [String] map, with the latter list being an infinite list of words with that particular size. Now assume that you want to have a 100 character sentence. You start by looking if you got any 100 character word, if yes it's your sentence, if not you divide it in half (maybe offset by a weighted random factor [1]) and start over again. You can then specify your whole document along the lines of (capitalise $ words 100) ++ ". " ++ (capitalise $ words 10) ++ "?" ++ (capitalise $ words 20) ++ "oneone1!" [1] Random midpoint displacement is a very interesting topic by itself. -- (c) this sig last receiving data processing entity. Inspect headers for past copyright information. All rights reserved. Unauthorised copying, hiring, renting, public performance and/or broadcasting of this signature prohibited.