spellclean.pl

#!/usr/bin/perl

#spellclean.pl
#cleans the spell checking word list.
#USAGE spellclean.pl FILE.dic


my $filename=shift;  #shift command line argument to variable filename
my $filenamemod = $filename.'.cleaned';  #cleaned filename and extension
my $linecount = 0;  #whole file line counter
my $removeline = 0;  #delete line flag
my @badlines = ();  #delete line array
my $modlinecount = 0;   #line counter for the destination file.

# open file for phrasing
open SPELLFILE, $filename or die "error opening file $filename\n";


print "Here is the preview of the words removed, press [Enter] to continue: ";
<STDIN>;  #wait for input


while ($line=<SPELLFILE>) {
    $linecount++;  #increment linecount

    if ($line=~m/^\d.*/) {  #remove any words beginning with numbers
        $removeline = 1;
    }
    elsif ($line=~m/(^[A-Z]{2}?)/) {    #remove any CAPital words, like acronyms
        $removeline = 1;
    }
    elsif ($line=~m/.-/gm) {    #remove any words with hyphens
        $removeline = 1;
    }
    elsif ($line=~ /.\./gm) {   #remove any words with dots
        $removeline = 1;
    }
    elsif ($line=~ /^.{1,3}$/gm) {  #remove any one and two letter words
        $removeline = 1;
    }
    elsif ($line=~ /^.{4,4}$/gm) {  #remove any three letter words
        $removeline = 1;
    }
    elsif ($line=~ /^.{5,5}$/gm) {  #remove any four letter words
        $removeline = 1;
    }
    elsif ($line=~ /^[A-Z].*$/gm) { #remove any Name style words
        $removeline = 1;
    }
    elsif ($line=~ /'.*$/gm) {  #remove any words with apostrophy
        $removeline = 1;
    }

    # push lines number to the array, reset the removeline flag to 0 before looping back
    if ($removeline == 1) {
        push (@badlines, $linecount);
        print "Bad line $linecount -> $line";
        $removeline = 0;
    }

}
close (SPELLFILE); # close the file


print "Preview complete, press [Enter] to remove words from list or ^C to abort! ";
<STDIN>;   #wait for input


#open the original file and a destination file.
open SPELLFILE, $filename or die "error opening file $filename\n";
open SPELLFILEMOD, ">$filenamemod" or die "error creating file $filenamemod\n";

$linecount = 0;  #reset line counter to zero.
$removeline = 0; #reuse this variable.


#checks if the line number of the original file matches the first element of the array [0], if it does then it is a badline
#and it wont be printed to the destination file.  The removeline variable is incremented for the next array element.

while ($line=<SPELLFILE>) {
    $linecount++;
    if ($badlines[$removeline]==$linecount) {
        print "Removing line $linecount -> $line";
        $removeline++;
    }
    else {
         print SPELLFILEMOD "$line";
         $modlinecount++;
     }
}
#close the files
close SPELLFILE;
close SPELLFILEMOD;

# summary
print "\n\nCompleted!\n";
print "Total lines in the original file is: $linecount\n";
print "Total lines removed is: ".scalar(@badlines)."\n";
print "Cleaned file has: $modlinecount lines\n";
print "Cleaned file is saved as: $filenamemod\n";