Building the Word Finder
The tool you are about to build, wordlasso, is a word-finding application that could be used to help you with crossword puzzles and other word-based games. The user will be able to execute it like so:
% wordlasso -i la..o
lacto
Lanao
Lango
largo
lasso
latro
wordlasso will accept a few different options and will take as its argument a string template with periods for wildcards.
It will produce a list of words that fit the provided template.
In the example above, with the template la..o, the tool outputs a list of all five-letter words that begin with “la” and end in “o.”
Note that in this example the search is not case sensitive – wordlasso will support both case-sensitive and case-insensitive searches.
In Xcode, create ...
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