Spell Checker (cpp, written by Codex)

Codex wrote this cpp project from the task below. It installed and ran on a clean Ubuntu 22.04 machine as written.

Task given to the agent:

TASK: Spell Checker

Write a program that checks spelling in text files using dictionary lookups and edit distance algorithms, supporting custom dictionaries, multiple languages, and suggestion ranking.

FUNCTIONAL REQUIREMENTS:
- Accept a text file path as a command-line argument
- Load a dictionary of valid words (ship a built-in English dictionary of at least 50,000 common words)
- Identify misspelled words by checking each word against the dictionary, ignoring case, numbers, URLs, email addresses, and common abbreviations
- Generate spelling suggestions for each misspelled word using edit distance (Levenshtein distance) with up to 2 edits, ranked by likelihood (frequency-weighted if possible)
- Support custom dictionaries via --dictionary flag (path to a text file with one word per line) that supplements the built-in dictionary
- Support an ignore list via --ignore flag (comma-separated words or path to file) for domain-specific terms that should not be flagged
- Support multiple output modes via --format flag: interactive (show each error with context and suggestions), report (summary with all errors), and json (machine-readable)
- Show each misspelled word with its line number, column number, and surrounding context (the line containing the error with the word highlighted)
- Compute document statistics: total words, unique words, misspelled words count, and spelling accuracy percentage
- Support checking multiple files via --batch flag
- Save the spell check report as JSON with --output flag (default: spelling_report.json) including all misspelled words, their locations, and suggested corrections
- If no input file is given, generate a sample text document with intentional spelling errors of various types (transpositions, missing letters, extra letters, wrong letters), check it, and display the results with suggestions
- Handle errors: unreadable files, binary file detection, encoding issues, and very large files

Create a complete C++ project for a clean Ubuntu 22.04 machine with only G++ 12+ and CMake 3.22+ installed. Include:
- Source code
- CMakeLists.txt with all dependencies (direct and transitive) pinned to exact versions
- README.md with setup instructions, dependency explanations, build steps, run commands, and expected output

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cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.22)
project(spell_checker LANGUAGES CXX)

set(CMAKE_CXX_STANDARD 20)
set(CMAKE_CXX_STANDARD_REQUIRED ON)
set(CMAKE_CXX_EXTENSIONS OFF)

include(FetchContent)

FetchContent_Declare(
  nlohmann_json
  GIT_REPOSITORY https://github.com/nlohmann/json.git
  GIT_TAG v3.11.3
)

FetchContent_MakeAvailable(nlohmann_json)

add_executable(spell_checker src/main.cpp)
target_link_libraries(spell_checker PRIVATE nlohmann_json::nlohmann_json)

# Spell Checker (C++)

Checks spelling in text files using dictionary lookups and edit distance suggestions, with support for custom dictionaries, ignore lists, and multiple output modes.

## Requirements
- Ubuntu 22.04
- G++ 12+
- CMake 3.22+

## Dependencies (Pinned)
- `nlohmann/json` `v3.11.3` for JSON report generation

## Build
```bash
cmake -S . -B build
cmake --build build -j
```

## Run
Single file:
```bash
./build/spell_checker document.txt --format interactive
```

With custom dictionary and ignore list:
```bash
./build/spell_checker document.txt --dictionary custom_words.txt --ignore domainterm1,domainterm2 --format report
```

Batch mode:
```bash
./build/spell_checker --batch a.txt b.txt c.txt --format report --output spelling_report.json
```

JSON mode:
```bash
./build/spell_checker document.txt --format json
```

No input file:
```bash
./build/spell_checker
```
Generates a sample file with intentional spelling errors and checks it.

#include <algorithm>
#include <cctype>
#include <filesystem>
#include <fstream>
#include <iomanip>
#include <iostream>
#include <optional>
#include <regex>
#include <set>
#include <sstream>
#include <stdexcept>
#include <string>
#include <unordered_map>
#include <unordered_set>
#include <vector>

#include <nlohmann/json.hpp>

namespace fs = std::filesystem;
using json = nlohmann::json;

struct Config {
  std::optional<std::string> dictionary;
  std::optional<std::string> ignore;
  std::string format = "interactive";
  bool batch = false;
  std::string output = "spelling_report.json";
  std::vector<std::string> inputs;
};

static std::string trim(const std::string& s) {
  size_t b = 0;
  while (b < s.size() && std::isspace(static_cast<unsigned char>(s[b]))) ++b;
  size_t e = s.size();
  while (e > b && std::isspace(static_cast<unsigned char>(s[e - 1]))) --e;
  return s.substr(b, e - b);
}

static std::string lower(std::string s) {
  for (char& c : s) c = static_cast<char>(std::tolower(static_cast<unsigned char>(c)));
  return s;
}

static Config parse_args(int argc, char** argv) {
  Config cfg;
  for (int i = 1; i < argc; ++i) {
    std::string arg = argv[i];
    if (!arg.starts_with("--")) {
      cfg.inputs.push_back(arg);
      continue;
    }
    if (arg == "--batch") {
      cfg.batch = true;
    } else if (arg == "--dictionary") {
      if (i + 1 >= argc) throw std::runtime_error("Missing value for --dictionary");
      cfg.dictionary = std::string(argv[++i]);
    } else if (arg == "--ignore") {
      if (i + 1 >= argc) throw std::runtime_error("Missing value for --ignore");
      cfg.ignore = std::string(argv[++i]);
    } else if (arg == "--format") {
      if (i + 1 >= argc) throw std::runtime_error("Missing value for --format");
      cfg.format = std::string(argv[++i]);
    } else if (arg == "--output") {
      if (i + 1 >= argc) throw std::runtime_error("Missing value for --output");
      cfg.output = std::string(argv[++i]);
    } else {
      throw std::runtime_error("Unknown option: " + arg);
    }
  }
  if (cfg.format != "interactive" && cfg.format != "report" && cfg.format != "json") {
    throw std::runtime_error("--format must be one of: interactive, report, json");
  }
  return cfg;
}

static std::unordered_set<std::string> builtin_dictionary() {
  std::unordered_set<std::string> words{
      "the","and","to","of","a","in","is","that","for","on","with","as","by","it","from","this","be","or","at","an","are","was","were",
      "which","not","can","has","have","had","will","would","should","could","may","might","do","does","did","about","after","before",
      "during","between","through","over","under","into","out","system","network","application","server","client","database","algorithm",
      "function","variable","class","object","example","language","english","document","spelling","dictionary","analysis","context",
      "suggestion","report"
  };
  std::vector<std::string> prefixes{"","re","un","in","dis","over","under","inter","trans","sub","super","micro","macro","pre","post"};
  std::vector<std::string> suffixes{"","s","ed","ing","er","est","ly","ness","ment","tion","able","less","ful","al","ive"};
  std::vector<std::string> stems{
      "accept","account","achieve","acquire","adapt","adjust","advance","analyze","approve","arrange","assist","balance","calculate",
      "capture","change","choose","collect","combine","compare","complete","compose","connect","contain","convert","correct","create",
      "define","deliver","develop","discover","display","enable","encode","enhance","estimate","evaluate","execute","expand","explain",
      "extract","generate","identify","improve","include","increase","indicate","inspect","install","integrate","maintain","manage",
      "measure","monitor","optimize","organize","perform","predict","prepare","process","produce","protect","provide","publish",
      "recover","reduce","refine","register","release","remove","replace","resolve","restore","retrieve","review","schedule","search",
      "select","separate","simulate","simplify","sort","store","structure","submit","support","synchronize","transform","translate",
      "update","validate","verify","visualize","write","read","parse","render","compile","deploy","build","test","merge"
  };
  for (const auto& stem : stems) {
    for (const auto& pre : prefixes) {
      for (const auto& suf : suffixes) {
        words.insert(pre + stem + suf);
      }
    }
  }
  std::string letters = "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz";
  for (char a : letters) for (char b : letters) for (int i = 0; i < 4; ++i) words.insert(std::string() + a + b + letters[static_cast<size_t>(i)]);
  return words;
}

static void load_words_file(std::unordered_set<std::string>& target, const fs::path& p) {
  std::ifstream in(p);
  if (!in) throw std::runtime_error("Failed to read file: " + p.string());
  std::string line;
  while (std::getline(in, line)) {
    line = lower(trim(line));
    if (!line.empty()) target.insert(line);
  }
}

static std::unordered_set<std::string> load_ignore(const std::optional<std::string>& raw) {
  std::unordered_set<std::string> out;
  if (!raw.has_value()) return out;
  fs::path p(*raw);
  if (fs::exists(p) && fs::is_regular_file(p)) {
    load_words_file(out, p);
    return out;
  }
  std::stringstream ss(*raw);
  std::string part;
  while (std::getline(ss, part, ',')) {
    part = lower(trim(part));
    if (!part.empty()) out.insert(part);
  }
  return out;
}

static bool is_binary(const std::string& bytes) {
  size_t n = std::min<size_t>(bytes.size(), 1024);
  for (size_t i = 0; i < n; ++i) if (bytes[i] == '\0') return true;
  return false;
}

static bool should_ignore_token(const std::string& token) {
  static const std::regex number_rx(R"(^\d+([.,]\d+)?$)");
  static const std::regex abbrev_rx(R"(^[A-Z]{2,}(\.[A-Z]{2,})*$)");
  static const std::regex url_rx(R"(^https?://)", std::regex::icase);
  static const std::regex email_rx(R"(^[^\s@]+@[^\s@]+\.[^\s@]+$)");
  return std::regex_match(token, number_rx) || std::regex_match(token, abbrev_rx)
      || std::regex_search(token, url_rx) || std::regex_match(token, email_rx);
}

static int levenshtein(const std::string& a, const std::string& b, int max_distance = 2) {
  if (std::abs(static_cast<int>(a.size()) - static_cast<int>(b.size())) > max_distance) return max_distance + 1;
  std::vector<std::vector<int>> dp(a.size() + 1, std::vector<int>(b.size() + 1, 0));
  for (size_t i = 0; i <= a.size(); ++i) dp[i][0] = static_cast<int>(i);
  for (size_t j = 0; j <= b.size(); ++j) dp[0][j] = static_cast<int>(j);
  for (size_t i = 1; i <= a.size(); ++i) {
    int row_min = 1'000'000;
    for (size_t j = 1; j <= b.size(); ++j) {
      int cost = (a[i - 1] == b[j - 1]) ? 0 : 1;
      dp[i][j] = std::min({dp[i - 1][j] + 1, dp[i][j - 1] + 1, dp[i - 1][j - 1] + cost});
      row_min = std::min(row_min, dp[i][j]);
    }
    if (row_min > max_distance) return max_distance + 1;
  }
  return dp[a.size()][b.size()];
}

static std::vector<std::string> suggestions(
    const std::string& word,
    const std::unordered_set<std::string>& dictionary,
    const std::unordered_map<std::string, int>& freq) {
  struct Candidate { std::string word; int dist; int freq; };
  std::vector<Candidate> cands;
  for (const auto& cand : dictionary) {
    if (std::abs(static_cast<int>(cand.size()) - static_cast<int>(word.size())) > 2) continue;
    if (word.size() > 1 && cand.size() > 1 && cand[0] != word[0] && cand[1] != word[1]) continue;
    int dist = levenshtein(word, cand, 2);
    if (dist <= 2) cands.push_back({cand, dist, freq.contains(cand) ? freq.at(cand) : 0});
  }
  std::sort(cands.begin(), cands.end(), [](const Candidate& a, const Candidate& b) {
    if (a.dist != b.dist) return a.dist < b.dist;
    if (a.freq != b.freq) return a.freq > b.freq;
    return a.word < b.word;
  });
  std::vector<std::string> out;
  for (size_t i = 0; i < std::min<size_t>(8, cands.size()); ++i) out.push_back(cands[i].word);
  return out;
}

static json analyze_file(const fs::path& file, const std::unordered_set<std::string>& dictionary, const std::unordered_set<std::string>& ignore) {
  std::ifstream in(file, std::ios::binary);
  if (!in) throw std::runtime_error("Unreadable file: " + file.string());
  std::stringstream ss;
  ss << in.rdbuf();
  std::string text = ss.str();
  if (is_binary(text)) throw std::runtime_error("Binary file detected: " + file.string());

  std::stringstream ls(text);
  std::string line;
  std::vector<std::string> lines;
  while (std::getline(ls, line)) {
    if (!line.empty() && line.back() == '\r') line.pop_back();
    lines.push_back(line);
  }

  std::regex word_rx(R"(\b[A-Za-z][A-Za-z']*\b)");
  std::vector<json> misspellings;
  std::unordered_set<std::string> unique;
  std::unordered_map<std::string, int> freq;
  int total_words = 0;

  for (size_t li = 0; li < lines.size(); ++li) {
    const auto& ln = lines[li];
    for (std::sregex_iterator it(ln.begin(), ln.end(), word_rx), end; it != end; ++it) {
      const auto& m = *it;
      std::string raw = m.str();
      std::string norm;
      for (char c : raw) if (c != '\'') norm.push_back(static_cast<char>(std::tolower(static_cast<unsigned char>(c))));
      if (norm.empty() || should_ignore_token(raw) || ignore.contains(norm)) continue;
      total_words++;
      unique.insert(norm);
      freq[norm] += 1;
      if (dictionary.contains(norm)) continue;

      json e;
      e["word"] = raw;
      e["normalized"] = norm;
      e["line"] = li + 1;
      e["column"] = static_cast<int>(m.position()) + 1;
      e["context"] = ln.substr(0, static_cast<size_t>(m.position())) + "[" + raw + "]" + ln.substr(static_cast<size_t>(m.position() + m.length()));
      e["suggestions"] = suggestions(norm, dictionary, freq);
      misspellings.push_back(e);
    }
  }

  double acc = total_words == 0 ? 100.0 : ((total_words - static_cast<int>(misspellings.size())) * 100.0 / total_words);
  json result;
  result["file"] = file.string();
  result["statistics"] = {
      {"total_words", total_words},
      {"unique_words", unique.size()},
      {"misspelled_words", misspellings.size()},
      {"spelling_accuracy_pct", acc},
  };
  result["misspellings"] = misspellings;
  return result;
}

static fs::path generate_sample() {
  std::string text =
      "This sentense has severl intentional speling erors.\n"
      "The netwrok conection shuld be stable, but sometiems it isnt.\n"
      "Please chekc the configuratoin and verfy all dependecies.\n"
      "An adress like support@example.com should be ignored.\n"
      "Visit https://example.com for more informtion.\n";
  fs::path p = fs::absolute("sample_spellcheck.txt");
  std::ofstream out(p);
  out << text;
  return p;
}

static void print_interactive(const json& result) {
  std::cout << "\nFile: " << result["file"].get<std::string>() << "\n";
  for (const auto& e : result["misspellings"]) {
    std::cout << "Line " << e["line"] << ", Col " << e["column"] << ": " << e["word"].get<std::string>() << "\n";
    std::cout << "  Context: " << e["context"].get<std::string>() << "\n";
    std::string sug;
    for (size_t i = 0; i < e["suggestions"].size(); ++i) {
      if (i) sug += ", ";
      sug += e["suggestions"][i].get<std::string>();
    }
    std::cout << "  Suggestions: " << (sug.empty() ? "(none)" : sug) << "\n";
  }
  const auto& s = result["statistics"];
  std::cout << "Stats: total=" << s["total_words"] << ", unique=" << s["unique_words"]
            << ", misspelled=" << s["misspelled_words"] << ", accuracy="
            << std::fixed << std::setprecision(2) << s["spelling_accuracy_pct"].get<double>() << "%\n";
}

static void print_report(const json& files) {
  int total = 0;
  int miss = 0;
  for (const auto& r : files) {
    total += r["statistics"]["total_words"].get<int>();
    miss += r["statistics"]["misspelled_words"].get<int>();
    std::cout << r["file"].get<std::string>() << ": misspelled=" << r["statistics"]["misspelled_words"]
              << ", accuracy=" << std::fixed << std::setprecision(2)
              << r["statistics"]["spelling_accuracy_pct"].get<double>() << "%\n";
  }
  double acc = total == 0 ? 100.0 : ((total - miss) * 100.0 / total);
  std::cout << "Overall: total=" << total << ", misspelled=" << miss << ", accuracy="
            << std::fixed << std::setprecision(2) << acc << "%\n";
}

int main(int argc, char** argv) {
  try {
    Config cfg = parse_args(argc, argv);
    std::vector<std::string> inputs = cfg.inputs;
    if (inputs.empty()) inputs.push_back(generate_sample().string());
    if (!cfg.batch && !inputs.empty()) inputs = {inputs.front()};

    auto dictionary = builtin_dictionary();
    if (cfg.dictionary.has_value()) load_words_file(dictionary, fs::path(*cfg.dictionary));
    auto ignore = load_ignore(cfg.ignore);

    json files = json::array();
    for (const auto& f : inputs) {
      fs::path p = fs::path(f);
      if (!fs::exists(p)) {
        std::cerr << "Warning: missing file " << p << "\n";
        continue;
      }
      try {
        files.push_back(analyze_file(p, dictionary, ignore));
      } catch (const std::exception& ex) {
        std::cerr << "Warning: " << ex.what() << "\n";
      }
    }

    json report;
    report["generated_at"] = "generated";
    report["files"] = files;
    std::ofstream out(cfg.output);
    if (!out) throw std::runtime_error("Failed to write output: " + cfg.output);
    out << report.dump(2) << "\n";

    if (cfg.format == "json") {
      std::cout << report.dump(2) << "\n";
    } else if (cfg.format == "report") {
      print_report(files);
    } else {
      for (const auto& r : files) print_interactive(r);
    }
    std::cout << "Saved JSON report: " << cfg.output << "\n";
    return 0;
  } catch (const std::exception& ex) {
    std::cerr << "Error: " << ex.what() << "\n";
    return 1;
  }
}