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Vic D'Elfant · Posted: Thu Mar 18, 2004 4:17 pm Post subject: Less picky @equal

Hi everyone,

I've been trying to create a program that asks me a word, for example, in English, and I have to enter the Dutch translation, to learn tests at school Smile

The 'asking'-part works fine, but the program is kinda picky when accepting answers...
For example, if the correct answer would be 'spare time', and I entered 'spar time' (with a typo), the program says it's incorrect. Which actually is right, because I use @equal to compare the correct and the given anwer, but isn't it possible to let it be a bit less-picky, so these answers are also accepted?

I've been thinking about counting the sum of the ASCII codes of the correct answer and the sum of the ASCII codes of the given answer, and then calculate the difference, but this isn't reliable either... Confused

Thanks in advance,
Vic

Mac · Posted: Thu Mar 18, 2004 4:51 pm Post subject:

Ya could try a routine with @substr() and make a few attempts
to check for partial spellings of the word. Maybe check 1/2 - 3/4
of the word length or so? Might use @pos() for this as well.

Just a thought... Wink

Cheers, Mac Smile

jules · Posted: Thu Mar 18, 2004 6:52 pm Post subject:

Perhaps you could spell check the string before doing the comparison? Very Happy

Is there a spell check extension for VDS?

Serge · Posted: Fri Mar 19, 2004 8:50 am Post subject:

hi vic,

i assume that you are entering somewhere along the way the correct answers for your program to check your entries against (bad english sentence this is!)...so why don't you add the mispelling that would be acceptable with a popup saying that you got part of the answer right

i would recommend parsing your answer and then checking each individual word against the correct spelling...if none are found then check it against a prepared list of acceptable spelling mistakes

does that make sense?

serge

Protected · Posted: Fri Mar 19, 2004 10:40 am Post subject:

I agree with mac about the usage of @pos . It would be extremely useful in this case, allowing you to make a routine that would pick much more 'close-but-not-exactly-right' answers than if you defined them manually. I use that function all the time for this kind of stuff...

Dr. Dread · Posted: Fri Mar 19, 2004 11:43 am Post subject:

Or perhaps Vic shouldn't get into the habit of getting away with incorrect answers Wink

How 'bout a math test: 12 +12 = 25! OK, that's fairly close - correct answer... Very Happy

If I were the professor, I'd stick with @equal() and perhaps even add the EXACT parameter Twisted Evil

Dread

vtol · Posted: Fri Mar 19, 2004 11:00 pm Post subject:

A slang list or Spellchecker extinsion sounds good..

FreezingFire · **Admin Team** Joined: 23 Jun 2002 Posts: 3508

That's something that's been wanted for years. Smile