Question

Write a program that employs the four letter word dictionary to check the spelling of an input word (test word). You will need to save the dictionary file to a folder on your computer. For this program you will prompt the user to enter a four letter word (or four characters). Then using a loop read each word from the dictionary and compare it to the input test word. If there is a match then you have spellchecked the word. Write a message to the screen indicating that the word was spelled correctly. If you do not find the word in the dictionary (no match) then write a message to the screen indicating that the test word is not spelled correctly. Show output for the following test words: bird, lake, zoom, and xxyt. NOTE: You may use a loop to repeatedly test a series of words if you like instead of running the program four separate times. If you do this you will need to reset the dictionary file after each word.

c++ please

data file:

http://uahcs.org/CS121/data/dictionary_four_letter_words.txt

Answer 1

As you haven't specified any programming language I have done it Java. Please comment if you want it any other language.

Code:

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#include<fstream>   
#include<iostream>   
using namespace std;
bool checkIfPresent(string);

int main(){   
std::ifstream file("dictionary.txt");   
string inp = "y";   
while(inp!="-1"){   
cout<<"Enter a word or -1 to quit: ";   
cin>>inp;   
if(inp=="-1"){
break;
}   
if(checkIfPresent(inp)){
cout<<"The word was spelled correctly"<<endl;   
}   
else{   
cout<<"The word was not spelled correctly"<<endl;
}   
}   
}   

bool checkIfPresent(string word){   
std:ifstream file("dictionary.txt");
if(file.is_open()){   
std::string line;   
while(getline(file,line)){
if(line==word){   
return true;
}   
}   
}   
file.close();   
return false;   
}

Output screen:

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