Perl 'Expert' Quiz-of-the-Week #9

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You will write an interactive spelling checker program, named 'yspel'.

The spelling checker will behave just like the 'spel' program
described in the regular quiz of the week, with the following changes:

1 'yspel' will not read the document to be checked from the standard
  input; it will use the command-line arguments only.  It will edit
  these files in-place to correct misspellings as directed by the
  user.

2 'yspel' will not produce a list of misspelled words on output.
  Instead, for each (possibly) misspelled word it will prompt the user
  with the context of the misspelling and a menu of possible
  alternative words.
  
3 If the user selects one of these alternatives, 'yspel' will replace
  the mispelled word with the selected alternative.

4 The menu will also include four special options:

        1. Replace thee  word in the document with an alternative that
           wasn't on the menu

        2. Add the 'mispelled' word to the user's private  dictionary,
           in the '.spel' file in their home directory, and ignore all
           future appearances of this word in the document
        
        3. Ignore all future appearances of this word in the document,
           but don't add the word to the dictionary

        4. Ignore this appearance of this word, but continue to flag
           it if it appears again in the same document


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P.S.: I'm sorry that this week's quiz (and last week's reports) are
late.  I was detained all through Tuesday and Wednesday by other
business.  I hope to send out last week's reports tonight.

P.P.S: Yesterday was Perl's 15th birthday.  Happy birthday, Perl!


Mark-Jason Dominus 	  			                 [email protected]