Re: mass delete words based on spell

On Mar 1, 1:00 pm, Bee <200...@calcentral.com> wrote:
> On Mar 1, 12:47 pm, Tim Chase <v...@tim.thechases.com> wrote:
> > Christian Brabandt wrote:
> > > this should have been
>
> > > :%s/\w\+/\=printf("%s", !empty(spellbadword(submatch(0))[0])?submatch(0):'')/
>
> > Lovely solution and introduction to spellbadword() (which I've
> > not seen/used before).  However, I'm curious why you chose to use
> > printf("%s", ...) instead of just using the contents.
>
> > So my reworking of Christian's idea:
>
> > :%s/\w\+/\=empty(spellbadword(submatch(0))[0]))?'':submatch(0)/g
>
> > The other catch (at least in English) is that words like "can't"
> > aren't found whole by "\w\+", so you might have to tweak the
> > regexp or 'iskeyword' to include apostrophes.
>
> Yes wonderful introduction to spellbadword()
>
> I tried your solution and got errors, counted parens and found one too
> many closing, and this works.
>
> :%s/\w\+/\=empty(spellbadword(submatch(0))[0])?'':submatch(0)/g

Thank you Tim and Christian

Since I had one word per line, having grabbed the words from a book a
friend is writing, sorted to keep only unique, this works great:

:%s/\w\+\n/\=empty(spellbadword(submatch(0))[0])?submatch(0):''/g

-Bill

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