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load all words from dictionary

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sl - 26 Nov 2004 02:27 GMT
Hi

I am building an application that can display a listing of words in
alphabetical order (A-Z) (not all at once). How do I load/extract the words
from MS-word dictionary? Is there an API that can do this?

Thank you
sl
Helmut Weber - 27 Nov 2004 12:50 GMT
Hi,
to the best of my knowledge,
no way, because such databases contain not only words,
but words and word parts and rules, which define, whether
a combination of those would result in a possible word.
The database would contain, theoretically, what
linguists call morphemes, meaningful speech entities, like "up",
"down", "town", "ship", "s", (plural), "un", which would return "ups",
"downs", "uptown", "downtown", "downtowns", "township", "ships",
"unship"? and many more combinations, which might be not used
now the English language.
And the dictionary is not provided by Microsoft, but by third party,
like Houghton Mifflin Company, which protect their knowhow very well.
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Greetings from Bavaria, Germany
Helmut Weber, MVP
"red.sys" & chr(64) & "t-online.de"
Word XP, Win 98
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