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NAME

WebService::GoogleHack::Spelling - Retrieves spelling suggestion given a string.

SYNOPSIS

    use WebService::GoogleHack::Spelling;

    #create an object of type spelling
    my $spelling = WebService::GoogleHack::Spelling->new(); 

    #make sure to initialize the correct wsdl file
    $spelling->init("key","wsdl file"); 

    $results = $spelling->spellingSuggestion($searchString);

    #$results will be a string containing the suggestion (If there is a suggestion given by Google, otherwise it would be a null variable).
    
    #The suggested "correction" string can also be accessed by,
    
    #$spelling->{'correction'};

DESCRIPTION

This module interacts with Google to retrieve a spelling suggestion given a string. It is used by the WebService::GoogleHack driver module.

PACKAGE METHODS

__METHOD__->new()

Purpose: This function creates an object of type Spelling and returns a blessed reference.

__METHOD__->init(Key,wsdl_location)

Purpose: This this function can used to inititalize the member variables.

Valid arguments are :

  • Key

    string. key to the google-api

  • wsdl_location

    string. This the wsdl file name

__METHOD__->spellingSuggestion(searchString)

Purpose: This is function is used to retrieve a spelling suggestion from Google

Valid arguments are :

  • searchString

    string. Need to pass the search string, which can be a single word

Returns: Returns suggested spelling if there is one, otherwise returns "No Spelling Suggested".

AUTHOR

Pratheepan Raveendranathan, <rave0029@d.umn.edu>

Ted Pedersen, <tpederse@d.umn.edu>

BUGS

SEE ALSO

WebService::GoogleHack home page - http://google-hack.sourceforge.net

Pratheepan Raveendranathan - http://www.d.umn.edu/~rave0029/research

Ted Pedersen - www.d.umn.edu./~tpederse

Google-Hack Maling List <google-hack-users@lists.sourceforge.net>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright (c) 2005 by Pratheepan Raveendranathan, Ted Pedersen

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to

The Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.

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