NAME
Text::Hunspell::FFI - Perl FFI interface to the Hunspell library
VERSION
version 0.04
SYNOPSIS
use Text::Hunspell::FFI;
# You can use relative or absolute paths.
my $speller = Text::Hunspell::FFI->new(
"/usr/share/hunspell/en_US.aff", # Hunspell affix file
"/usr/share/hunspell/en_US.dic" # Hunspell dictionary file
);
die unless $speller;
# Check a word against the dictionary
my $word = 'opera';
print $speller->check($word)
? "'$word' found in the dictionary\n"
: "'$word' not found in the dictionary!\n";
# Spell check suggestions
my $misspelled = 'programmng';
my @suggestions = $speller->suggest($misspelled);
print "\n", "You typed '$misspelled'. Did you mean?\n";
for (@suggestions) {
print " - $_\n";
}
# Add dictionaries later
$speller->add_dic('dictionary_file.dic');
DESCRIPTION
NOTE: This module is a reimplementation of Text::Hunspell using
FFI::Platypus instead of XS. The documentation has largely be cribbed
from that module. The main advantage to this module is that it does not
require a compiler. The man disadvantage is that it is experimental and
may break.
This module provides a Perl interface to the Hunspell library. This
module is to meet the need of looking up many words, one at a time, in
a single session, such as spell-checking a document in memory.
The example code describes the interface on http://hunspell.sf.net
METHODS
The following methods are available:
new
my $spell = Text::Hunspell::FFI->new($full_path_to_affix, $full_path_to_dic);
Creates a new speller object. Parameters are:
full path of affix (.aff) file
full path of dictionary (.dic) file
Returns undef if the object could not be created, which is unlikely.
add_dic
$spell->add_dic($path_to_dic);
Adds a new dictionary to the current Text::Hunspell::FFI object. This
dictionary will use the same affix file as the original dictionary, so
this is like using a personal word list in a given language. To check
spellings in several different languages, use multiple
Text::Hunspell::FFI objects.
check
my $bool = $spell->check($word);
Check the word. Returns 1 if the word is found, 0 otherwise.
suggest
my @words = $spell->suggest($misspelled_word);
Returns the list of suggestions for the misspelled word.
The following methods are used for morphological analysis, which is
looking at the structure of words; parts of speech, inflectional
suffixes and so on. However, most of the dictionaries that Hunspell can
use are missing this information and only contain affix flags which
allow, for example, 'cat' to turn into 'cats' but not 'catability'.
(Users of the French and Hungarian dictionaries will find that they
have more information available.)
analyze
my @words = $spell->analyze($word);
Returns the analysis list for the word. This will be a list of strings
that contain a stem word and the morphological information about the
changes that have taken place from the stem. This will most likely be
'fl:X' strings that indicate that affix flag 'X' was applied to the
stem. Words may have more than one stem, and each one will be returned
as a different item in the list.
However, with a French dictionary loaded, analyze('chanson') will
return
st:chanson po:nom is:fem is:sg
to tell you that "chanson" is a feminine singular noun, and
analyze('chansons') will return
st:chanson po:nom is:fem is:pl
to tell you that you've analyzed the plural of the same noun.
stem
my @stems = $spell->stem($word);
Returns the stem list for the word. This is a simpler version of the
results from analyze().
generate2
my @ana = $spell->generate2($stem, \@suggestions)
Returns a morphologically modified stem as defined in @suggestions (got
by analysis).
With a French dictionary:
$feminine_form = 'chanteuse';
@ana = $speller->analyze($feminine_form);
$ana[0] =~ s/is:fem/is:mas/;
print $speller->generate2($feminine_form, \@ana)
will print 'chanteur'.
generate
my @ana = generate($stem, $word)
Returns morphologically modified stem like $word.
$french_speller->generate('danseuse', 'chanteur');
tells us that the masculine form of 'danseuse' is 'danseur'.
SEE ALSO
Text::Hunspell
FFI::Platypus
CAVEATS
Please see:
For the dictionaries:
http://magyarispell.sf.net for Hungarian dictionary
AUTHOR
Graham Ollis <plicease@cpan.org>
COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
This software is copyright (c) 2015-2021 by Graham Ollis.
This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.