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NAME

App::wordlist - Grep words from (or test them against) WordList::*

VERSION

This document describes version 0.292 of App::wordlist (from Perl distribution App-wordlist), released on 2024-01-05.

SYNOPSIS

See the included script wordlist.

FUNCTIONS

wordlist

Usage:

 wordlist(%args) -> [$status_code, $reason, $payload, \%result_meta]

Grep words from (or test them against) WordList::*.

Examples:

  • By default print all words from all wordlists:

     wordlist();
  • Print all words from all static wordlists (dynamic ones are excluded with --exclude-dynamic-wordlists a.k.a. -D):

     wordlist(exclude_dynamic_wordlists => 1);
  • Print all words matching /foo/ and /bar/:

     wordlist(arg => ["foo", "bar"]);
  • Print all words matching /foo/ or /bar/:

     wordlist(arg => ["foo", "bar"], or => 1);
  • Print wordlist name for each matching words:

     wordlist(arg => ["foo"], detail => 1);
  • Select a specific wordlist (multiple -w allowed):

     wordlist(arg => ["foo"], wordlists => ["ID::KBBI"]);
  • Select all ID::* wordlists (wildcard will be expanded):

     wordlist(arg => ["foo"], wordlists => ["ID::**"]);
  • Select a bunch of wordlists via wordlist bundle (Acme::CPANModules::WordListBundle::* module):

     wordlist(arg => ["foo"], wordlist_bundles => ["Proverbs"]);
  • An alternative to select all proverb wordlists:

     wordlist(arg => ["foo"], wordlists => ["Phrase::**::Proverb::**"]);
  • Check to see which wordlists we are selecting via `-w` with wildcards or via `-b`:

     wordlist(action => "list_selected", wordlists => ["Phrase::**::Proverb::**"]);
  • Print all words from EN::Enable wordlist that are 6 characters long and have the letters BOBLEG (in no particular order); great for cheats in word forming games:

     wordlist(
         chars_unordered => "bobleg",
       ignore_case => 1,
       len => 6,
       wordlists => ["EN::Enable"]
     );
  • Print all words from EN::Enable wordlist that are 6 characters long and have the letters B,G,L (in that order); great for finding crossword puzzle answers:

     wordlist(
         chars_ordered => "BGL",
       ignore_case => 1,
       len => 6,
       wordlists => ["EN::Enable"]
     );
  • Select French wordlists (multiple --lang allowed):

     wordlist(arg => ["foo"], langs => ["FR"]);
  • Filter by regex:

     wordlist(arg => ["/fof[aeiou]/"]);
  • Select a wordlist with parameters:

     wordlist(wordlists => ["MetaSyntactic=theme,dangdut"]);
  • List installed wordlist modules:

     wordlist(action => "list_installed");
  • List wordlist modules available on CPAN:

     wordlist(action => "list_cpan");
  • Show statistics of a wordlist module:

     wordlist(action => "stat", wordlists => ["ID::KBBI"]);
  • Check some passwords against a password wordlist:

     wordlist(
         arg => ["foobar", 123456, "someGoodPass923"],
       action => "test",
       wordlists => ["Password::RockYou::BloomOnly"]
     );
  • Check some passwords against all Password wordlists except Password::RockYou (because it is slow to check):

     wordlist(
         arg => ["foobar", 123456, "someGoodPass923"],
       action => "test",
       exclude_wordlists => ["Password::RockYou"],
       wordlists => ["Password::**"]
     );
  • Check some passwords against all Password wordlists except those matching /RockYou/ regex:

     wordlist(
         arg => ["foobar", 123456, "someGoodPass923"],
       action => "test",
       exclude_wordlist_pattern => "RockYou",
       wordlists => ["Password::**"]
     );

This function is not exported.

Arguments ('*' denotes required arguments):

  • action => str (default: "grep")

    Action list_installed (shortcut option -l) will list WordList::* modules installed on the local system.

    Action list_cpan (shortcut option -L) will list available WordList::* modules on CPAN, either by querying the MetaCPAN site or by querying a local mini CPAN using App::lcpan.

    Action list_selected (option --action=list_selected) will list the selected WordList::* modules (e.g. via -w or -b).

    Action grep (the default action) will filter the words from each selected wordlists and print them.

    Action stat (shortcut option -s) will show statistics about all the selected wordlists.

    Action test (shortcut option -t) will check whether words are in one of the wordlist, using word_exists() method on each wordlist.

  • arg => array[str]

    (No description)

  • chars_ordered => str

    Specify possible characters for the word (ordered).

  • chars_unordered => str

    Specify possible characters for the word (unordered).

  • color => str (default: "auto")

    When to highlight search string/matching pattern with color.

  • detail => bool

    Display more information when listing modules/result.

    When listing installed modules (-l), this means also returning a wordlist's language.

    When returning grep result, this means also returning wordlist name.

  • exclude_dynamic_wordlists => bool

    (No description)

  • exclude_wordlist_pattern => re_from_str

    (No description)

  • exclude_wordlists => array[str]

    Exclude wordlist modules.

  • ignore_case => bool (default: 1)

    (No description)

  • langs => array[str]

    Only include wordlists of certain language(s).

    By convention, language code is the first subnamespace of a wordlist module, e.g. WordList::EN::* for English, WordList::FR::* for French, and so on. Wordlist modules which do not follow this convention (e.g. WordList::Password::* or WordList::PersonName::*) are not included.

  • lcpan => bool

    Use local CPAN mirror first when available (for -L).

  • len => int

    (No description)

  • max_len => int

    (No description)

  • min_len => int

    (No description)

  • num => int (default: 0)

    Return (at most) this number of words (0 = unlimited).

  • or => bool

    Instead of printing words that must match all queries (the default), print words that match any query.

  • random => bool

    Pick random words.

    If set to true, then streaming will be turned off. All words will be gathered first, then words will be chosen randomly from the gathered list.

  • wordlist_bundles => array[str]

    Select one or more wordlist bundle (Acme::CPANModules::WordListBundle::*) modules.

  • wordlists => array[str]

    Select one or more wordlist modules.

Returns an enveloped result (an array).

First element ($status_code) is an integer containing HTTP-like status code (200 means OK, 4xx caller error, 5xx function error). Second element ($reason) is a string containing error message, or something like "OK" if status is 200. Third element ($payload) is the actual result, but usually not present when enveloped result is an error response ($status_code is not 2xx). Fourth element (%result_meta) is called result metadata and is optional, a hash that contains extra information, much like how HTTP response headers provide additional metadata.

Return value: (any)

wordlist_wordle

Usage:

 wordlist_wordle(%args) -> [$status_code, $reason, $payload, \%result_meta]

Help solve Wordle.

Examples:

  • One guess:

     wordlist_wordle(arg => ["cR^eEk"]);
  • Five guesses:

     wordlist_wordle(arg => ["A^R^isE^", "Pound", "might", "blA^ck", "PR^ivY^"]);

This is a wrapper to wordlist designed to be a convenient helper to solve Wordle puzzle. By default it greps from the EN::Wordle wordlist. It accepts a series of guesses in a format like the following:

 A^R^isE^
 Pound
 might
 blA^ck
 PR^ivY^

where lowercase means wrong guess, uppercase means correct letter and position, while (uppercase) letter followed by a caret (^) means the letter exists in another position. It will convert these guesses to regex patterns and the --chars-unordered option and pass it to wordlist.

This function is not exported.

Arguments ('*' denotes required arguments):

  • arg => array[str]

    (No description)

  • color => str (default: "auto")

    When to highlight search string/matching pattern with color.

  • detail => bool

    Display more information when listing modules/result.

    When listing installed modules (-l), this means also returning a wordlist's language.

    When returning grep result, this means also returning wordlist name.

  • exclude_dynamic_wordlists => bool

    (No description)

  • exclude_wordlist_pattern => re_from_str

    (No description)

  • exclude_wordlists => array[str]

    Exclude wordlist modules.

  • ignore_case => bool (default: 1)

    (No description)

  • langs => array[str]

    Only include wordlists of certain language(s).

    By convention, language code is the first subnamespace of a wordlist module, e.g. WordList::EN::* for English, WordList::FR::* for French, and so on. Wordlist modules which do not follow this convention (e.g. WordList::Password::* or WordList::PersonName::*) are not included.

  • len => int (default: 5)

    (No description)

  • max_len => int

    (No description)

  • min_len => int

    (No description)

  • num => int (default: 0)

    Return (at most) this number of words (0 = unlimited).

  • or => bool

    Instead of printing words that must match all queries (the default), print words that match any query.

  • random => bool

    Pick random words.

    If set to true, then streaming will be turned off. All words will be gathered first, then words will be chosen randomly from the gathered list.

  • wordlist_bundles => array[str]

    Select one or more wordlist bundle (Acme::CPANModules::WordListBundle::*) modules.

  • wordlists => array[str] (default: ["EN::Wordle"])

    Select one or more wordlist modules.

Returns an enveloped result (an array).

First element ($status_code) is an integer containing HTTP-like status code (200 means OK, 4xx caller error, 5xx function error). Second element ($reason) is a string containing error message, or something like "OK" if status is 200. Third element ($payload) is the actual result, but usually not present when enveloped result is an error response ($status_code is not 2xx). Fourth element (%result_meta) is called result metadata and is optional, a hash that contains extra information, much like how HTTP response headers provide additional metadata.

Return value: (any)

ENVIRONMENT

DEBUG => bool

COLOR => bool

Set color on/off when --color=auto (the default).

HOMEPAGE

Please visit the project's homepage at https://metacpan.org/release/App-wordlist.

SOURCE

Source repository is at https://github.com/perlancar/perl-App-wordlist.

SEE ALSO

App::WordListUtils

App::GamesWordlist (games-wordlist) which greps from Games::Word::Wordlist::* instead.

WordList and WordList::* modules.

arraydata from App::arraydata, hashdata from App::hashdata, and tabledata from App::tabledata. These are newer projects that will supersede WordList one day.

AUTHOR

perlancar <perlancar@cpan.org>

CONTRIBUTOR

Ryo <roysharyanto@gmail.com>

CONTRIBUTING

To contribute, you can send patches by email/via RT, or send pull requests on GitHub.

Most of the time, you don't need to build the distribution yourself. You can simply modify the code, then test via:

 % prove -l

If you want to build the distribution (e.g. to try to install it locally on your system), you can install Dist::Zilla, Dist::Zilla::PluginBundle::Author::PERLANCAR, Pod::Weaver::PluginBundle::Author::PERLANCAR, and sometimes one or two other Dist::Zilla- and/or Pod::Weaver plugins. Any additional steps required beyond that are considered a bug and can be reported to me.

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2024, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014 by perlancar <perlancar@cpan.org>.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.

BUGS

Please report any bugs or feature requests on the bugtracker website https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Name=App-wordlist

When submitting a bug or request, please include a test-file or a patch to an existing test-file that illustrates the bug or desired feature.