From: Joseph Seaton <greenpenguin.mailing@...>
Date: 2007-04-22T22:40:09+09:00
Subject: Re: [QUIZ] Morse Code (#121)

This is my first solution that I've posted (and my first post to 
ruby-talk) so please be nice to me, I'm only a newbie.

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require 'rubygems'
gem 'raspell'
require 'raspell'

class MCheck
    def initialize(message, mmap)
        @aspell = Aspell.new
        @mmap = mmap
        matches(message)
    end
    def matches(str,s="")                #recursively check string for
        @mmap.each do |n,o|              #every possible letter
            if str =~ /^#{n}(.*)$/
                num = "#{s}#{@mmap[n]}"
                if $1 == ""
                    x = @aspell.check(num) ? "*" : " "
                    puts " #{x} #{num}"
                else
                    matches($1, num)
                end
            end
        end
    end
end
MCheck.new(gets.gsub(/[^\.\-]+/, ''), Hash[*"A .- N -.
B -... O ---
C -.-. P .--.
D -.. Q --.-
E . R .-.
F ..-. S ...
G --. T -
H .... U ..-
I .. V ...-
J .--- W .--
K -.- X -..-
L .-.. Y -.--
M -- Z --..".gsub(/(\.|\-)/, '\\\\\1').split(/\n| /)].invert) #Escape . 
and - for regexx, and create hash
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My solution uses aspell, with the raspell ruby bindings, so it might be 
a pain to get working, but it's fairly simple to remove the 
spell-checking code.  I haven't checked how efficient this code is, I 
think the efficiency of the terminal used at printing out all the 
solutions probably has more effect on speed.

Joe