Acronim

Some simple procs for messing around with words.

These are especially useless for real-life use, but were a fun way to learn more about Nim.

Examples

Iterate through all possible combinations of the letters in a word:

let text = "abc"
for combination in text.permutations:
  echo combination

Ouput:

abc
bac
acb
bca
cba
cab

Check for an anagram:

let 
  word = "apple"
  scrambled = "eppal"
if word.isAnagram(scrambled):
  echo "It's a match."
  
Output:

It's a match.

Remove vowels from some text:

let text = "Masterkraft & Subtrakt are great!"
let txt = removeVowels(text)

Output:

Mstrkrft & Sbtrkt r grt!

Check if a word is a pallindrome:

let word = "racecar"
if word.isPallindrome:
  echo word

Output:

racecar

Make sure a word uses all letters in the alphabet (a pangram):

let sentence = "Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow"
if sentence.isPangram:
  echo "This one has everything from A to Z."
  
Output:

This one has everything from A to Z.

Turn a sentence in to an acronym:

let sentence = "Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow"
echo makeAcronym(sentence)

Output:

SOBQJMV

Find the most frequently used letter in some text:

let words = "All the kings men couldn't put Humpty back together again."
echo "Letter '", words.mostCommonLetter.key,"' came up ", words.mostCommonLetter.val, " times."

Output:

Letter 't' came up 6 times.

Count the vowels and consonants in text:

let words = "All the kings men couldn't put Humpty back together again."
echo words.countConsonants," consonants and ", words.countVowels, " vowels."

Output:

43 consonants and 15 vowels.

Iterate through every 2nd letter:

let words = "Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs"
for letter in words.stepBy(2):
  echo letter
  
Output:

Pc ybxwt iedznlqo us

Iterate through every 2nd letter, starting at the 4th (index: 3) letter and ending at the 16th (index: 15):

let words = "Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs"
for letter in words.stepBy(2, 3, 15):
  echo letter
  
Output:

km o ih

Find the highest value Scrabble word for your given letters (or use some from the Scrabble board also):

import parsecsv, strutils

while true:
  printWordScores("words.txt") # Enter some scrabble letters to the console to find the possible word combinations and scores

Input:

trehsya

Output (abbreviated): # Note: A dictionary was used here rather than a list of Scrabble words

New Word: ae Score: 2
New Word: aer Score: 3
New Word: aery Score: 7
New Word: aes Score: 3
New Word: aet Score: 3
New Word: ah Score: 5
New Word: ahey Score: 10
New Word: ahet Score: 7
New Word: ahs Score: 6
New Word: aht Score: 6
New Word: ay Score: 5
New Word: aye Score: 6
New Word: ayes Score: 7
...
New Word: ashery Score: 12
...
New Word: trashy Score: 12
New Word: trasy Score: 8
New Word: treas Score: 5
New Word: trey Score: 7
New Word: treys Score: 8
New Word: tres Score: 4
New Word: try Score: 6
New Word: trs Score: 3
New Word: ts Score: 2
New Word: tsar Score: 4

Best Word: ashery Score: 12

Shorten a sentence if a chain of words can share common letters:

echo recombobulate("Digital alarm clocks scare area children.")
echo recombobulate("Deep episodes of Deep Space Nine came on the television only after the news.")

Output:

Digitalarm clockscarea children.
Deepisodes of Deep Space Nine came on the televisionly after the news.

Take text from a file and transpose it in the console:

transposeText("sample.txt")

Input (sample.txt):

Some
text.

Output:

St
oe
mx
et
 .