Re: [aspell-devel] List words of a dictionnary.

[Kevin Scannell]

On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 5:05 PM, Kevin Atkinson <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Mon, 2 Jun 2008, Jean-Rémy Falleri wrote:
>
>> To do that using Aspell, I need a function in the Aspell API that can
>> list all the words of a given dictionnary. After having read the whole
>> aspell.h file, I have reached the conclusion that it does not exist
>> yet. Am I right? Is there an easy way to do that?
>
> It is possible, see print_word_list in example-c.c in the examples/
> directory of the source distribution.

And while it might be off-topic for this particular list, let me add
that this is not a good way to collect n-gram statistics for a
language - you'd want to do that with actual running texts if you're
interested in language recognition.

Kevin