searching through a string and pulling characters

[Alexnb]

If by "What happened when you did:" you mean dictionary.com and
yourdictionary.com? Nothing, they work but screen scraping isn't medicore at
best. They both work fine (yourdictionary is better for screen scraping)
but. I want maybe an offline soloution. But the whole reason for the program
is that I can type in 20 words at one time, get them defined and formatted
and then save all from my app. So far, all is good, I just need an offline
soloution, or one from a database. You say a free dictionary program. But
how can I get definitions from another program w/o opening it? Anyway,
Ideas?


John Machin wrote:
> 
> On Aug 19, 8:34 am, Alexnb <alexnbr... at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> The number is based on the word(s) they type into my program, and then it
>> fetches the number that word is in the list of words and then will search
>> the definitions document and go to the nth def. It probably won't work,
>> but
>> that is the Idea.
> 
> Consider (1) an existing (free) dictionary application (2) using a
> database, if you feel you must write your own application.
> 
>>
>> Also, on a side-note, does anyone know a very simple dictionary site,
>> that
>> isn't dictionary.com or yourdictionary.com. Or, a free dictionary that I
>> can
>> download to have an offline reference?
> 
> What happened when you did:
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