Problem of the Day
A new programming or logic puzzle every Mon-Fri

What a glorious Monday it is!

Today's goal is to create a function that takes in a word (no spaces or dashes) and determines if that word is created from two or more smaller words. For instance the word "newspaper" is a combination of "news" and "paper". All smaller words must contain at least 2 letters, thus all words passed to this function must be 4 characters or more. Here is an English dictionary to get you started. Feel free to use any language dictionary you want though.

Comments:

• Anonymous - 9 years, 7 months ago

  inputword = raw_input("Enter a word> ")
  p = len(inputword)
  
  wordlist = []
  
  file = open('WordsEn.txt', 'r')
  for line in file:
      if len(line) <= p+2:
          wordlist.append(line[0:(len(line)-2)])
  
  pointer = 2
  
  combo = []
  
  while pointer <= (p - 2):
      a = inputword[0:pointer]
      b = inputword[pointer:p]
  
      if a in wordlist:
          if b in wordlist:
              combo.append([a,b])
  
      pointer = pointer + 1
  
  print combo
  

  Output: $ python comboword.py Enter a word> crossword [['cros', 'sword'], ['cross', 'word']]

  reply permalink