NAME

       Text::Hunspell - Perl interface to the Hunspell library

SYNOPSIS

           use Text::Hunspell;

           # You can use relative or absolute paths.
           my $speller = Text::Hunspell->new(
               "/usr/share/hunspell/en_US.aff",    # Hunspell affix file
               "/usr/share/hunspell/en_US.dic"     # Hunspell dictionary file
           );

           die unless $speller;

           # Check a word against the dictionary
           my $word = 'opera';
           print $speller->check($word)
                 ? "'$word' found in the dictionary\n"
                 : "'$word' not found in the dictionary!\n";

           # Spell check suggestions
           my $misspelled = 'programmng';
           my @suggestions = $speller->suggest($misspelled);
           print "\n", "You typed '$misspelled'. Did you mean?\n";
           for (@suggestions) {
               print "  - $_\n";
           }

           # Add dictionaries later
           $speller->add_dic('dictionary_file.dic');

DESCRIPTION

       This module provides a Perl interface to the Hunspell library.  This module is to meet the
       need of looking up many words, one at a time, in a single session, such as spell-checking
       a document in memory.

       The example code describes the interface on http://hunspell.sf.net

DEPENDENCIES

       You MUST have installed the Hunspell library version 1.0 or higher on your system before
       installing this "Text::Hunspell" Perl module.

       Hunspell location is:

           http://hunspell.sf.net

       There have been a number of bug reports because people failed to install hunspell before
       installing this module.

       This is an interface to the hunspell library installed on your system, not a replacement
       for hunspell.

       You must also have one hunspell dictionary installed when running the module's test suite.

       Also, please see the README and Changes files.  README may have specific information about
       your platform.

METHODS

       The following methods are available:

   Text::Hunspell->new($full_path_to_affix, $full_path_to_dic)
       Creates a new speller object. Parameters are:

       full path of affix (.aff) file
       full path of dictionary (.dic) file

       Returns "undef" if the object could not be created, which is unlikely.

   add_dic($path_to_dic)
       Adds a new dictionary to the current "Text::Hunspell" object. This dictionary will use the
       same affix file as the original dictionary, so this is like using a personal word list in
       a given language. To check spellings in several different languages, use multiple
       "Text::Hunspell" objects.

   check($word)
       Check the word. Returns 1 if the word is found, 0 otherwise.

   suggest($misspelled_word)
       Returns the list of suggestions for the misspelled word.

       The following methods are used for morphological analysis, which is looking at the
       structure of words; parts of speech, inflectional suffixes and so on.  However, most of
       the dictionaries that Hunspell can use are missing this information and only contain affix
       flags which allow, for example, 'cat' to turn into 'cats' but not 'catability'. (Users of
       the French and Hungarian dictionaries will find that they have more information
       available.)

   analyze($word)
       Returns the analysis list for the word. This will be a list of strings that contain a stem
       word and the morphological information about the changes that have taken place from the
       stem. This will most likely be 'fl:X' strings that indicate that affix flag 'X' was
       applied to the stem. Words may have more than one stem, and each one will be returned as a
       different item in the list.

       However, with a French dictionary loaded, "analyze('chanson')" will return

         st:chanson po:nom is:fem is:sg

       to tell you that "chanson" is a feminine singular noun, and "analyze('chansons')" will
       return

         st:chanson po:nom is:fem is:pl

       to tell you that you've analyzed the plural of the same noun.

   stem($word)
       Returns the stem list for the word. This is a simpler version of the results from
       "analyze()".

   generate2($stem, \@suggestions)
       Returns a morphologically modified stem as defined in @suggestions (got by analysis).

       With a French dictionary:

         $feminine_form = 'chanteuse';
         @ana = $speller->analyze($feminine_form);
         $ana[0] =~ s/is:fem/is:mas/;
         print $speller->generate2($feminine_form, \@ana)

       will print 'chanteur'.

   generate($stem, $word)
       Returns morphologically modified stem like $word.

         $french_speller->generate('danseuse', 'chanteur');

       tells us that the masculine form of 'danseuse' is 'danseur'.

BUGS

       Probably. Yes, definitely.

LICENSE

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

AUTHORS

       Originally written by Eleonora, <eleonora46_at_gmx_dot_net>.

       The current maintainer is Cosimo Streppone, <cosimo@cpan.org>

       This module is based on Text::Aspell written by Bill Moseley moseley at hank dot org.

       Hunspell is written as myspell by Kevin B. Hendricks.

       Hunspell is maintained by Németh László.

       Please see:

           http://hunspell.sf.net

       For the dictionaries:

          http://lingucomponent.openoffice.org/spell_dic.html
          http://magyarispell.sf.net for Hungarian dictionary