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NAME

App::wordlist - Grep words from Games::Word::{Wordlist,Phraselist}::*

VERSION

This document describes version 0.08 of App::wordlist (from Perl distribution App-wordlist), released on 2014-12-18.

SYNOPSIS

See the included script wordlist.

FUNCTIONS

wordlist(%args) -> [status, msg, result, meta]

Grep words from Games::Word::{Wordlist,Phraselist}::*.

Examples:

 wordlist();

By default print all words from all wordlists.

 wordlist( arg => ["foo", "bar"]);

Print all words matching /foo/ and /bar/.

 wordlist( arg => ["foo", "bar"], or => 1);

Print all words matching /foo/ or /bar/.

 wordlist( arg => ["foo"], wordlist => ["KBBI"]);

Select a specific wordlist (multiple -w allowed).

 wordlist( arg => ["'/fof[aeiou]/'"]);

Filter by regex.

Arguments ('*' denotes required arguments):

  • action => str (default: "grep")

  • arg => array

  • detail => bool

    Display more information when listing modules.

  • ignore_case => bool (default: 1)

  • len => int

  • max_len => int

  • min_len => int

  • or => bool

    Use OR logic instead of the default AND.

  • wordlist => array

    Select one or more wordlist modules.

Return value:

Returns an enveloped result (an array).

First element (status) is an integer containing HTTP status code (200 means OK, 4xx caller error, 5xx function error). Second element (msg) is a string containing error message, or 'OK' if status is 200. Third element (result) is optional, the actual result. Fourth element (meta) is called result metadata and is optional, a hash that contains extra information.

 (any)

TODO

In -l --detail, show summary (extract from POD Name or # ABSTRACT).

Option --random (plus -n) to generate (or n) random word(s).

Option -v (--invert-match) like grep.

Implement -n (max result).

SEE ALSO

Games::Word::Wordlist

Games::Word::Phraselist

HOMEPAGE

Please visit the project's homepage at https://metacpan.org/release/App-wordlist.

SOURCE

Source repository is at https://github.com/perlancar/perl-App-wordlist.

BUGS

Please report any bugs or feature requests on the bugtracker website https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Name=App-wordlist

When submitting a bug or request, please include a test-file or a patch to an existing test-file that illustrates the bug or desired feature.

AUTHOR

perlancar <perlancar@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2014 by perlancar@cpan.org.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.