c++ word inventor

[SamuraiJack]

Hey ! After a lot of experimenting and learning some things about unidimensional arrays, an ideea struck me : make a word inventor.

Here's a link to my blog with explanations and a download link. Yes I know it's in romanian, but all you have to do is type the number of characters you want the word to be, and it will generate the word ( it takes aprox 1 sec for each character to generate).

[url]http://sjackm.wordpress.com/2009/10/19/the-program-that-makes-words-c/[/url]

[Within]

Sounds like a fun time killer.
It's wrong section, though.
Try the [url=http://www.facepunch.com/forumdisplay.php?f=240]programming forum[/url].

Other than that cool program, will try it out shortly. I like that you actually thought through how to make it generate "non-nonsense" (read the article at your homepage).

[PCR Kilimajar0]

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[SamuraiJack]

Oh man, I'm extremely sorry. I'm just new to these forums and they're a bit confusing to me.
Any admin that sees this, please move my post to that section.

[Within]

It doesn't work for me.
As soon as I open it, it stops responding and I have to close it.

[Hyzer]

Pretty interesting... here's some words I got:

nquxx
awaagen
eadu
eto
iniuxa
iruee
exoeheriyu
efiiu
oilovuceilusaciimisicoimosozuimusrz

[omarrodriguez]

It has its problems, but it's otherwise pretty fun.

[SamuraiJack]

[quote]oilovuceilusaciimisicoimosozuimusrz[/quote]
I lol'd. How many seconds did it take ? =))

[b]Within[/b], I don't know why it's crashing on your system. Are you not using Windows ? If so, it won't work because it includes a windows library.

[EDIT] If you consider it funny, then I would like to hear your ideas improving it :D.
Also thanks admin for moving my post !

[ZeekyHBomb]

What do you need the Windows API for in this program ô.o
Maybe you could post the source code?

Also, crashes for me too using Windows 7 64-bit. I was able to run other 32-bit programs without any problems so far though.. but I am using this OS just since last week.
As such I don't know if it is already in there, but you could ask how many words it shall produce at once, with how many minimum and maximum characters.

[ZomBuster]

Yeh crashes for me too on Win 7. Can you maybe post the code?

[garry]

So it prints out a random list of characters?

[Within]

[QUOTE=garry;17917180]So it prints out a random list of characters?[/QUOTE]

Excuse me, Mr. Newman, I'm afraid I have to inform you that you're wrong.

[editline]06:23PM[/editline]

[QUOTE=SamuraiJack;17916695]
[b]Within[/b] are you not using Windows?[/QUOTE]

I'm using Vista 64-bit, by the way.

[Dragon]

It looks like it follows a bit of rules to make something pronounceable.

The biggest issue I see is why does it take so long for something that should be generated in linear time?

[jA_cOp]

[QUOTE=Dragon;17917247]It looks like it follows a bit of rules to make something pronounceable.

The biggest issue I see is why does it take so long for something that should be generated in linear time?[/QUOTE]

Sleep function from the Windows API :sigh:

(Since he's already using the Windows API in his code, he should've used SetConsoleTitle and SetConsoleTextAttribute instead of system("title etc") and system("color 20"))

@op, you should post the code.

[Cathbadh]

I could imagine doing this as a sort of probability function for choosing the next letter based upon a 3 or 4 character window of previous characters generated. For example, 3 vowels in a row should be incredibly rare, and never all 3 being the same. Judicial use of [I]th, gh, wr[/I], and other compound sounds so you can hopefully try to make something pronounceable. Try to construct it one syllable at a time.

[jA_cOp]

[QUOTE=Cathbadh;17917516]I could imagine doing this as a sort of probability function for choosing the next letter based upon a 3 or 4 character window of previous characters generated. For example, 3 vowels in a row should be incredibly rare, and never all 3 being the same. Judicial use of [I]th, gh, wr[/I], and other compound sounds so you can hopefully try to make something pronounceable. Try to construct it one syllable at a time.[/QUOTE]

I really don't think he's targeting English...

[SamuraiJack]

[quote]The biggest issue I see is why does it take so long for something that should be generated in linear time? [/quote]
That's because I tried to make it instantly, but the seed for the rand function is the system time, and if it makes it instantly all the characters will be aprox the same. I don't know how to generate a lot of random numbers instantly :( .

Let me translate the code, and I'll post it. brb
[EDIT] Yes, I was not targeting english. For romanian, the rule with consonants and vowels is happily enough. In our language, the words are read as they are.

[Cathbadh]

[QUOTE=jA_cOp;17917538]I really don't think he's targeting English...[/QUOTE]
Then that makes it exponentially simpler. English is like the x86 of spoken languages. Full of weird hacks and inconsistencies, and yet everyone uses it.

[gparent]

You should be seeding only once.

[TheBoff]

The words aren't supposed to be *that* realistic I think. Also - you only need to seed rand once, you realise: after that, the algorithm for the random number generator is specifically designed to create numbers that seem completely random very fast.

[r4nk_]

[QUOTE=SamuraiJack;17917560]That's because I tried to make it instantly, but the seed for the rand function is the system time, and if it makes it instantly all the characters will be aprox the same. I don't know how to generate a lot of random numbers instantly :( .

Let me translate the code, and I'll post it. brb
[EDIT] Yes, I was not targeting english. For romanian, the rule with consonants and vowels is happily enough. In our language, the words are read as they are.[/QUOTE]

You only need to set the seed once

[jA_cOp]

[QUOTE=SamuraiJack;17917560]That's because I tried to make it instantly, but the seed for the rand function is the system time, and if it makes it instantly all the characters will be aprox the same. I don't know how to generate a lot of random numbers instantly :( .

Let me translate the code, and I'll post it. brb[/QUOTE]

No, that's not how it works. When seeding with the system time, reseeding with a new time is useless. If you only seed once, you'll find your numbers plenty random:
[cpp]
srand(time(NULL));

for(int i = 0; i < 100; i++)
{
printf("%d\n", (rand()%100) + 1);
}
[/cpp]

[r4nk_]

Someone should tell him he only needs to seed once

[noctune9]

I did something similar a long time back. It used phonemes (as discussed [url=http://www.flipcode.com/archives/Generating_Names_Phonetically.shtml]here[/url]) to make it seem somewhat natural. Didn't seem like English or any other language I know, though.

[quote]foudgge
piychou
showm
moyvow
nga
boyph
dongee
soechke
zoaph
si[/quote]

Could probably be better if I made some kind of rule system.

[SamuraiJack]

I'm done with translating. Here's the code. I assume I don't have to repost the translated program, as all of you who discuss here have a c++ compiler :)

#include <iostream>
#include <windows.h>
#include <math.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <time.h>
using namespace std;

//randomization function called if a vowel must be randomly choosed
int vocalrand(){
    int v;
    srand(time(NULL));
    v=rand()%5;
    cout<<"V is equal to "<<v<<" "<<endl;
    cout<<" "<<endl;
    return v;
}
//randomization function that helps randomly choose a character from the 26 available
int randomi(){
    int n;
    srand(time(NULL));
    n=rand()%26;
    cout<<" N is equal to "<<n<<" (the number of the character in the array) "<<endl;
    cout<<" "<<endl;
    return n;
}

int main(){
    system("title Generatorul de Cuvinte"); // program name
    system("color 20"); // system color
    int n,contor,rand_liter,rand_vocal,conson,restart; // n=nr of characters, contor is used to move to the next character, rand_liter is used for the random character generation, rand_vocal generates a random vowel, conson is used to verify if there are more than 2 consonants and the next character is still a consonant ,restart is for checking the reset condition
    double secunde;
    char cuv[n];
    char *liter="abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz"; // the 26 characters array ( or string ? don't really know, I'm a beginner. But I know it works, and I spent 1 hour trying to make a 26 character array :D)
    cout<<" Type the number of characters the word will have"<<endl;
    cout<<" "<<endl;
    cout<<" The text that's generated while the characters are generated is not important"<<endl;
    cout<<" "<<endl;
    cout<<" The optimal number of characters is between 7 and 10 , under 5 the word won't always be readable and more than 15 will make it unreadable "<<endl;
    cout<<" "<<endl;
    cout<<"Number of characters:"<<endl;
    cin>>n;
    secunde=n*900/1000;
    cout<<" "<<endl;
    cout<<"You'll have to wait "<<secunde<<" seconds for the word generation"<<endl;
    cout<<" "<<endl;
    cout<<" "<<endl;
    cout<<" "<<endl;
    contor=0;
    while(contor<n){ // the code that does the job starts here. ok, please don't scream OMG when you see the if condition, I know I could have used negative checks and it would be a lot smaller, but I realised that too late and was too lazy to delete the line and redo it :P
                  rand_liter=randomi();
                  if((rand_liter==1)||(rand_liter==2)||(rand_liter==3)||(rand_liter==5)||(rand_liter==6)||(rand_liter==7)||(rand_liter==9)||(rand_liter==10)||(rand_liter==11)||(rand_liter==12)||(rand_liter==13)||(rand_liter==15)||(rand_liter==16)||(rand_liter==17)||(rand_liter==18)||(rand_liter==19)||(rand_liter==21)||(rand_liter==22)||(rand_liter==23)||(rand_liter==24)||(rand_liter==25)){
                       ++conson;
                       cout<<" conson++ ";
                       }
    if(conson>=2){
                                cout<<" 2 consons true "<<endl;
                                Sleep(500);
                                rand_vocal=vocalrand();
                                conson=0;
                                switch(rand_vocal){
                                                   case 0:
                                                        cuv[contor]='u';
                                                        break;
                                                   case 1:
                                                        cuv[contor]='a';
                                                        break;
                                                   case 2:
                                                        cuv[contor]='e';
                                                        break;
                                                   case 3:
                                                        cuv[contor]='i';
                                                        break;
                                                   case 4:
                                                        cuv[contor]='o';
                                                        break;
                                                        }}
                  else{
                       cuv[contor]=liter[rand_liter];
                       }
    
                  

                  
                  
                  
                  
                  ++contor;
                  cout<<"====================================================="<<endl;
                  cout<<" "<<endl;
                  Sleep(900);
}
  cout<<" "<<endl;
  cout<<" "<<endl;
  cout<<" The generated word is: "<<endl;
  cout<<cuv<<endl;
  cout<<" "<<endl;
  cout<<" The weird characters from the end of the word are not important"<<endl;
  cout<<" "<<endl;
  cout<<"|-|-||-|-||-|-||-|-||-|-||-|-||-|-||-|-||-|-||-|-||-|-||-|-||-|-||-|-||-|-|"<<endl;
  cout<<" "<<endl;
  cout<<" CopyRight SamuraiJack -> [e-mail], 2009 "<<endl;
  cout<<" "<<endl;
  cout<<"Try again ?(yes=1, no=0) "<<endl;
  cin>>restart;
  if(restart==1){
                 system("CLS");
                 return main();
                 }
  else{
  return 0;}
}

[b]jA_cOp[/b], I think I should talk with you about the seeding problem on an instant messaging program please. MSN, Skype, Yahoo. What do you prefer ? Only if you can :).
I tried seeding it only once and it makes the same number every time :\.

[TheBoff]

Sorry, what? * 900/1000?? Why not just * 0.9 - You've replaced two ops with one there?

[jA_cOp]

[QUOTE=SamuraiJack;17917856][b]jA_cOp[/b], I think I should talk with you about the seeding problem on an instant messaging program please. MSN, Skype, Yahoo. What do you prefer ? Only if you can :). [/QUOTE]

I prefer the forums.

[QUOTE=SamuraiJack;17917856]I tried seeding it only once and it makes the same number every time :\.[/QUOTE]

The snippet I posted works fine.

[cpp]
#include <stdio.h>
#include <time.h>
#include <stdlib.h>

int main()
{
srand(time(NULL));

int i;
for(i = 0; i < 100; i++)
{
printf("%d\n", (rand()%100) + 1);
}
return 0;
}
[/cpp]

Prints 100 random numbers between 1 and 100.

[SamuraiJack]

I don't really understand why you use printf instead of cout, and printf seems to be weird to me. Also, what does "%d\n" because I'm guessing it's an active element not displayed text.

I'm sorry, I didn't learned programming as this and I'm new to this "printf" element.

[ZeekyHBomb]

It's just C code, not C++.
printf is what people use(d) instead of std::cout, %d would interpret the argument as an integer and \n prints a new line.

[gparent]

What he's trying to say is that you should seed *once* at the beginning of your program, and never after.

This will probably work in your case, although you use a recursive main (which is a big no-no).