Re: adding to an ispell dictionary

[tall_man]

The following (adapted from the man page) works for me from the command line:

use strict;
use Lingua::Ispell qw( :all );  # import all symbols
add_word_lc("shrdlu");
for my $r ( spellcheck( "hello hacking perl shrdlu 42" ) ) {
  print "$r->{'type'}: $r->{'term'}\n";
}

When I go to my home directory, I find that "shrdlu" has been added to the file .ispell_english.

I think what you will need is to specify a use_personal_dictionary, giving a file that can be written from your web browser interface, before attempting to add words.

[cbro]

And if what tall_man wrote is the only (or best) fix for you, here's a link that explains the use_dictionary, and use_personal_dictionary function.

[CodeJunkie]

Ok yeah that sounds possible, i've tried running the script you have above but it doesn't add to my personal dictionary.

The code I have is a follows

#!/usr/bin/perl -w 

use strict;
use Lingua::Ispell qw( :all );  # import all symbols
use_personal_dictionary('.ispell_english');
add_word_lc("shrdlu");
save_dictionary();
for my $r ( spellcheck( "hello hacking perl shrdlu 42" ) ) {
  print "$r->{'type'}: $r->{'term'}\n";
}

Unfortunately this does not add to the empty .ispell_english file in my home directory. Even with permissions set to chmod 666 and user: nobody, group: other (i.e. same as web server)

Do I need to set a personal_dictionary variable in my ispell local.h file and re- 'make' the ispell installation?

I hate this sys-admin stuff :-( Appreciate the help though thanks!

[tall_man]

What about using an absolute path to the personal dictionary? The user the web browser runs scripts with isn't you (it might be "apache").

[cbro]

I just did a fresh install of the Lingua::Ispell module, and ran the program that tall_man provided w/out problems.
Even when I didn't already have .ispell_english created, the program ran, gave me an error (No such file .ipsell_english), created the file, and correctly inserted the word
Any luck finding an error logged to your apache logs?
Chris
Update: Never mind. I didn't see that you had fixed the problem until I increased my 'Notes' depth.

[CodeJunkie]

I wish there was a way I could vote this node 10 times!!! That sorted it :-) Thanks