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<ashtons> touch banana.txt
author HackEso <hackeso@esolangs.org>
date Tue, 12 Nov 2019 00:50:17 +0000
parents cc933fc31298
children dff0129e4a40
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#!/usr/bin/python3
import sys, re
if len(sys.argv) <= 1:
    print("whatis what?")
    sys.exit(1)
else:
    argorg = []
    argfoldv = []
    foundv = []
    for arg in sys.argv[1:]:
        argorg.append(arg)
        argfoldv.append(arg.casefold())
        foundv.append(False)
    with open("/hackenv/share/whatis", errors="surrogateescape") as whatisdb:
        for line in whatisdb:
            parts = re.match(r"([^()]+)\(([0-9A-Z_a-z]+)\)", line)
            if parts:
                match = False
                for argind, argfold in enumerate(argfoldv):
                    if argfold == parts.group(1).casefold():
                        match = True
                        foundv[argind] = True
                if match:
                    print(line, end="")
        for arg, found in zip(argorg, foundv):
            if not found:
                print(arg + ": nothing appropriate.")