Looking For A Script - Does This Exist?

Im trying to find a script that will randomize the order of certain word lists.

For example lets say i have the following words in a text file..

Cat
Dog
Fish

I would paste them into the script and it would then output something like this..

Cat
Dog
Fish
CatDog
CatFish
DogCar
DogFish
FishCat
FishDog

Anyone know if such a script exists and if so, do you happen to have a link handy ;)

Regards,

Lee

Hm, methinks you stumped me this time. But I will ask this & then take a look - PHP, ASP, or .NET? :)

.php would be preferred if it is to be server based :)

Hehe thanks for the help, so far i have checked out hotscripts.com and drawn a blank so im really thinking this is non-existant :(

Regards,

Lee

:) Ok - I am on it .

Well this is what I sort of have come up with. I do not think any pre-made commercial script is out there.

I found this for documentation on strings:

http://us2.php.net/manual/en/ref.strings.php

And then someone gave me this code :) - if it works - fantastic:

Code:

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// Text file containing words
$txt = '/path/to/wordfile.txt';

$handle = fopen($txt, 'r');

if (!$handle) {
  die('Could not open...');
}

// set up arrays for storing words and concatenated words
$words = array();
$cwords = array();

// get the words
while (!feof($handle)) {
  // strip_newlines is not a real function - needs to be implemented
  array_push($words, strip_newlines(fgets($handle)));
}

// while we still have words
for ($i = 0; $i < count($words); $i++) {
  // get the current word
  $curword = $words[$i];
  // loop over the words
  foreach ($words as $word) {
      // if the word is the same as the current word, skip it - i.e. no CatCat
      if ($word == $curword) {
        continue;
      }
      // append the concatenated word to the array
      array_push($cwords, $curword.$word);
    }
}

print_r($words);
print_r($cwords);

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(Sorry we usually work on ASP actually).

Hehe well i got the setup bit done LOL

Getting an error and i know nothing about php lol

Regards,

Lee

I'll ask. My pogrammers do ASP so I know enough ASP ot get myself into trouble & enough PHP to be sent to jail :)

Haha thanks Corey, dont go out of your way though.. i appreciate the help and everything but im sure you have more important stuff to do than help me and my need for a new toy to play with LOL

Regards,

Lee

No worries. It seems like it should be pretty simple actually. I have emailed a few of my buddies that know more PHP :) & since I have this part of the script, I would think it should be pretty easy

Try this :)

Code:

---

// Text file containing words
$txt = '/path/to/wordfile.txt';

$handle = fopen($txt, 'r');

if (!$handle) {
  die('Could not open...');
}

// set up arrays for storing words and concatenated words
$words = array();
$cwords = array();

// get the words
while (!feof($handle)) {
  // strip_newlines is not a real function - needs to be implemented
  array_push($words, trim(fgets($handle)));
}


// while we still have words
for ($i = 0; $i < count($words); $i++) {
  // get the current word
  $curword = $words[$i];
  // loop over the words
  foreach ($words as $word) {
      // if the word is the same as the current word, skip it - i.e. no CatCat
      if ($word == $curword) {
        continue;
      }
      // append the concatenated word to the array
      array_push($cwords, $curword.$word);
    }
}

print_r($words);
print_r($cwords);

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Yep that works thanks :)

Now i have one more quick question LOL

Is there something i can alter to make it only display the word combinations without any of that extra 'funky' stuff? Sorry lol

Regards,

Lee

No worries. I don't test this myself. So more like the output to be:
Cat
Dog
Fish
CatDog
CatFish
DogCar
DogFish
FishCat
FishDog

Or
Cat Dog Fish CatDog CatFish DogCat DogFish FishCat FishDog

(or does it matter) :)

Thanks!

Quote:

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Originally posted by Corey Bryant
Cat
Dog
Fish
CatDog
CatFish
DogCar
DogFish
FishCat
FishDog

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Like that would be PERFECT!

Thanks again Corey :)

Regards,

Lee

This is what I was told:

Instead of:

Code:

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print_r($words);
print_r($cwords);

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use:

Code:

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foreach ($words as $var) echo $var."";
foreach ($cwords as $var2) echo $var2."";

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So I am guess:

Code:

---

// Text file containing words
$txt = '/path/to/wordfile.txt';

$handle = fopen($txt, 'r');

if (!$handle) {
  die('Could not open...');
}

// set up arrays for storing words and concatenated words
$words = array();
$cwords = array();

// get the words
while (!feof($handle)) {
  // strip_newlines is not a real function - needs to be implemented
  array_push($words, strip_newlines(fgets($handle)));
}

// while we still have words
for ($i = 0; $i < count($words); $i++) {
  // get the current word
  $curword = $words[$i];
  // loop over the words
  foreach ($words as $word) {
      // if the word is the same as the current word, skip it - i.e. no CatCat
      if ($word == $curword) {
        continue;
      }
      // append the concatenated word to the array
      array_push($cwords, $curword.$word);
    }
}

foreach ($words as $var) echo $var."";
foreach ($cwords as $var2) echo $var2."";

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Or even:

Code:

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$output = array_merge($words,$cwords);
echo implode("\n",$output);

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