You know how apple apps can turn ‘itwas’ into ‘it was’ as your typing in a text field? Is there an API for this? I’d like to be able to take something like AREALLYLONGSTRING and turn it into ‘a really long string’ or ‘a_really_long_string’ or basically insert whatever separator I want.

Something like -(NSString*)componentsSeparatedByDictionaryWord:(NSString*)string;

Does my magical imaginary API exist? I’d imagine it’s part of autocorrection functionality…

Thanks,
Sandor
Trying hard not to reinvent the wheel

On 27 Sep 2018, at 5:21 am, Sandor Szatmari <admin.szatmari.net@...> wrote:

You know how apple apps can turn ‘itwas’ into ‘it was’ as your typing in a text field? Is there an API for this? I’d like to be able to take something like AREALLYLONGSTRING and turn it into ‘a really long string’ or ‘a_really_long_string’ or basically insert whatever separator I want.

Some quick googlage suggests that UITextChecker (iOS) and NSSpellChecker (Mac OS) might fit the bill...?

-ben

Yes, thanks! I have been playing with NSSpellChecker but haven’t been able to configure it with the magic sauce to get it to tokenize the way I am describing.

Sandor

You could try taking the first n characters of a word (where n is 1 to maximum word length) and spell checking that string. When you a string that spell-checks, continue for the next n characters, and so on. If you get to a point where you can’t find a word for the remaining characters, backtrack and look for a longer word in the previous characters.

Some strings might have multiple answers:

findale could be find ale or fin dale

Jeremy