ANAGRAM
Generate Anagrams

ANAGRAM is a C++ program which takes a string of letters and tries to produce as many anagrams as possible, by James Cherry.

Usage:

anagram letters [numbers] [suggested words]

• letters, a string of lower case letters, with no spaces, to be anagrammed.
• [numbers], the optional numbers fields force the program to look for anagrams that contain words of each length. Up to ten word lengths may be specified. This is useful when you have a very large number of letters (e.g., more than 20) that you wish to permute, and you wish for the program to skip over all the anagrams containing only short (three and four letter) words. For example, when you are looking for anagrams of 30 letters, you might include the lengths "8 8 8" to force three of the words to be eight letters long each.
• [suggested words], the optional suggested words fields are taken one at a time, and they consist of lower case letters (a-z) only too; each set of these letters is removed from the original letters, and anagrams of the remaining letters are found. This can be useful when you wish to find anagrams involving particular words or a proper name.

If no command line arguments are specified, you are prompted for the arguments; after the program has found all anagrams, it returns you to the prompt.

Usage Examples:

• anagram jamescherry
  finds all anagrams of "jamescherry".
• anagram jamescherry 5
  forces at least one of the words to be 5 letters long.
• anagram jamescherry 6 5
  forces one word to be 6 letters long and the other to be 5 long.
• anagram jamescherry charm
  finds all anagrams where "charm" is one of the words.
• anagram
  enters interactive mode; then typing "jamescherry" at the prompt is the same as example 1, above. Likewise "jamescherry 5" at the prompt is the same as example 2.

Languages:

ANAGRAM is available in a C++ version.

Related Data and Programs:

PUZZLES, FORTRAN90 programs which were used to solve various puzzles.

SUBANAGRAM, a FORTRAN90 program which finds words which are anagrams formed from some of the letters of a given master word.

WORDS, a dataset directory which contains lists of words;

WORDSNAKE, a FORTRAN90 program which rearranges a list of words so that they have maximum overlap;

Author:

James Cherry.

Source Code:

• anagram.cpp, the source code;

Examples and Tests:

• anagram_dictionary.txt, the word list;
• ketel_one_anagrams.txt, a list of anagrams of "Ketel One Vodka";

List of Routines:

• ANAGRAM finds anagrams of a given set of letters.
• CHECK_DICT ??
• DO_SEARCH ??
• FIND_VALID_WORDS ??
• GET_ARGS prompts for the arguments if they weren't on the command line.
• INITIALIZE initializes certain data.
• PARSE_ARGS parses the command line arguments.
• READ_DICT reads the word list from the dictionary file.
• SEARCH ??
• TIMESTAMP prints the current YMDHMS date as a time stamp.

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