Scanning a file character by character

[Steve Holden]

Spacebar265 wrote:
> On Feb 7, 2:17 am, Jorgen Grahn <grahn+n... at snipabacken.se> wrote:
>> On Wed, 4 Feb 2009 22:48:13 -0800 (PST), Spacebar265 <spacebar... at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hi. Does anyone know how to scan a filecharacterbycharacterand
>>> have eachcharacterso I can put it into a variable. I am attempting
>>> to make a chatbot and need this to read the saved input to look for
>>> spelling mistakes and further analysis of user input.
>> That does not follow. To analyze a text, the worst possible starting
>> point is one variable for eachcharacter(what would you call them --
>> character_1, character_2, ... character_65802 ?)
>>
I believe most people would read the input a line at a time and split
the lines into words. It does depend whether you are attempting
real-time spelling correction, though. That would be a different case.

regards
 Steve
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