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    Default Need help grabbing a list of words!

    Hey guys, so I need help grabbing the list of 3 letter words from:
    http://www.yak.net/kablooey/scrabble/3letterwords.html
    And then write them to a text file like:

    AAA
    BBB


    etc...

    How could I do that?

    -Boom

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    You mean ... without the text after the 3 letter sequence?
    Quote Originally Posted by irc
    [00:55:29] < Guest3097> I lol at how BenLand100 has become noidea
    [01:07:40] <@BenLand100> i'm not noidea i'm
    [01:07:44] -!- BenLand100 is now known as BenLand42-
    [01:07:46] <@BenLand42-> shit
    [01:07:49] -!- BenLand42- is now known as BenLand420
    [01:07:50] <@BenLand420> YEA

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    I could do it in java for you... I have no idea how to do it in pascal though...
    If you just want the list of three letter words in a textfile to manipulate later send me a PM and Ill get it for you

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    Quote Originally Posted by noidea View Post
    You mean ... without the text after the 3 letter sequence?
    Yes.

    Quote Originally Posted by [Nathan] View Post
    I could do it in java for you... I have no idea how to do it in pascal though...
    If you just want the list of three letter words in a textfile to manipulate later send me a PM and Ill get it for you
    Sure, I don't care how, I just want the list in a text document <3

    -Boom

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    This is a cheep nasty way to do it in python

    Code:
    import urllib
    
    url = 'http://www.yak.net/kablooey/scrabble/3letterwords.html'
    lines = urllib.urlopen(url).readlines()
    to_write = ''
    for line in lines:
        if "<B>" in line and "</B>" in line:
            to_write+= line[line.index('<B>')+3:line.index("</B>")]+"\n"
    open('output.txt', 'w').write(to_write)
    print 'done'
    Quote Originally Posted by irc
    [00:55:29] < Guest3097> I lol at how BenLand100 has become noidea
    [01:07:40] <@BenLand100> i'm not noidea i'm
    [01:07:44] -!- BenLand100 is now known as BenLand42-
    [01:07:46] <@BenLand42-> shit
    [01:07:49] -!- BenLand42- is now known as BenLand420
    [01:07:50] <@BenLand420> YEA

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    http://pastebin.com/qegSN3kr

    Should have them all!

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    Sorry for the grave dig but I felt that it was important to point out that you guys overcomplicate things sometimes, good old excel text to columns.

    Code:
    AAH
    AAL
    AAS
    ABA
    ABO
    ABS
    ABY
    ACE
    ACT
    ADD
    ADO
    ADS
    ADZ
    AFF
    AFT
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    AZO
    BAA
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    Or you can stop being so simplistic and write a program that does this for u..

    Simba Code:
    program Textgrabber;

    Procedure GrabText;
    var
      Page, str: String;
      X, Y: Integer;
    begin
      Page:= GetPage('http://www.yak.net/kablooey/scrabble/3letterwords.html');
      while (Str <> 'ZZZ') do
      begin
        X:= PosEx('<B>', Page, X);
        Y:= PosEx('</B>', Page, Y);
        str:= Copy(Page, X + 3, Y - X - 3);
        X:= Y + 1; Y:= Y + 1;
        writeln(Str);
      end;
    end;

    begin
      GrabText;
    end.
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