spellchecker

A spellchecker written for the command line, using nodejs

Features

• Checks spelling of a file based on a dictionary
• Uses a Set to store dictionary words for fast lookup
• Outputs a list of misspelled words, including line number and column number
• Shows the inline context of each misspelled word
• Outputs a list of suggested words for each misspelled word
• Handles proper nouns and capitalized words
• Handles hypens and apostrophes
• Use streams to read in text files

Installation

Requires nodejs version 20.0.0 or higher

  npm install

Usage

  ./spellchecker.js <path to dictionary> <path to file to check>

Example

  ./spellchecker.js ./dictionary.txt ./test.txt

Tests

  npm test