From: Hongyi Zhao <hongyi.zhao@gmail.com>
To: Emanuel Berg <moasenwood@zoho.eu>,
help-gnu-emacs <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Find the longest word in the word list file.
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2021 10:10:47 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAGP6PO+72rfFKE1T=eievfkwsDR+zWrMEfPjty52iWGNhhOmUw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87a6loarpi.fsf@zoho.eu>
On Thu, Aug 12, 2021 at 12:09 AM Emanuel Berg via Users list for the
GNU Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> wrote:
>
> Hongyi Zhao wrote:
>
> > I have an English word list file that stores words in
> > a one-word-per-line format. Now I want to find the longest
> > word in the word list file. For example, I can use standard
> > UNIX tools to accomplish this with the following simple
> > commands:
> >
> > $ awk '$0 ~ /^[[:alpha:]]+$/ { print $0, length($0) }'
> > american-english-exhaustive | \
> > sort -k2n | tail -1
> > Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch 58
>
> #! /bin/zsh
> longest-line () {
> local f=$1
> awk '{ print length($0) " " $0; }' $f | sort -n | tail -1
> }
>
> $ longest-line american-english-insane
> 60 Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch's
>
> > But in Emacs, what is the elisp implementation for the
> > above task?
>
> This is one better suited for the shell IMO.
I don't think so. Whether you start completely from scratch, with
elisp, there are so many selections for doing such a thing. This way
can give us a deeper understanding of algorithms and how computers
work.
> Hm... is that really a word?
No idea.
Best, Hongyi
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Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-08-10 23:14 Find the longest word in the word list file Hongyi Zhao
2021-08-11 1:51 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-08-11 3:00 ` Hongyi Zhao
2021-08-11 6:46 ` tomas
2021-08-11 8:58 ` Hongyi Zhao
2021-08-11 10:03 ` tomas
2021-08-11 9:52 ` Arthur Miller
2021-08-11 10:06 ` tomas
2021-08-11 13:32 ` Hongyi Zhao
2021-08-11 13:58 ` Stephen Berman
2021-08-11 14:17 ` Hongyi Zhao
2021-08-11 14:27 ` Stephen Berman
2021-08-11 16:09 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-08-12 2:10 ` Hongyi Zhao [this message]
2021-08-12 2:29 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-08-12 3:13 ` Hongyi Zhao
2021-08-12 3:17 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-08-12 3:34 ` Hongyi Zhao
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2021-08-12 4:25 ` Hongyi Zhao
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2021-08-12 14:47 ` Kevin Vigouroux via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
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