Script: findstring The purpose of the script is to find the longest word in the

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Script: findstring

The purpose of the script is to find the longest word in the dictionary that contains the string specified on the command line. It should only display the top 5 words that contain this string, sorted by the string position in each word. Use the system dictionary located at mnt/usr/dict/word2. If the script is invoked findstring nova the answer may show some of the following words sorted by the position of the string nova in each word: novaculate, innovation, monovariant, equinovarus, decennoval

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Here's a little program I wrote ages ago in Prog.-I where we used C++, that could fairly easily be edited to work for your purposes. Not expecting an A+ for this, but it's late, I'm beat and figured a little help was better than none at all. Would recommend you check-out & bookmark this site, is an excellent place for help & tips for learning programming; #include #include using namespace std; int main() { string sentence; int length = 0, num_vowels = 0; cout

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