Wish: search by pattern

[jasonmacduffie]

Currently, I use "MoreWords" to find words that follow a certain pattern. This app seems like it could do something similar.

For example:

• "app*" finds all words starting with app, possibly including app
• "go-e" finds all words starting with go, then any one letter, then ends with e
• "so*be" finds all words starting with so and ending with be, possibly including sobe
• "ma-e ^kt" finds all words starting with ma, then a letter, then ends with e, but excludes words containing k or t

Also, you can search for anagrams by typing in random letters.

I find these useful in my poem writing.

[caarmen]

Thanks for the cool feature idea @jasonmacduffie :)

I'm working on a first iteration of it. For now it just supports
* to match any number of letters
? to match a single letter

This first version is quite simple because I just have to translate those symbols to the corresponding ones in SQLite (% and _ respectively).

I can probably tackle excluding words without too much additional work in a second version. Not too sure about the anagrams though: that might be a bit difficult to implement.

I'll add a comment here when the first version is published.
Cheers

[jasonmacduffie]

Awesome! Thanks for doing this :D

[caarmen]

Search by * and ? is possible since version 1.10.0, which was published on the Play Store yesterday.