A Markov Text generator in Nim (v 1.4.2)
Uses markov chains (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markov_chain) to generate nonsensical but somewhat grammatically valid text from one or more text files.
To build the command line utility:
nim --define:MarkovCmd c markov.nim
To use as a library just import and don't define "MarkovCmd"
To use the command line utility to generate text:
markov <options>
All options have a short "-r" and a long command "--read" and are followed by an argument
Markov Order A Markov Order is the number of phrases considered to be a "state" in the markov chain. The higher this is the more like the original text your output will be.
-o <integer> or --order <integer>
Sentence Count This determines the number of sentences generated by the utility. Default is 500.
-c <integer> or --count <integer>
Load datafile This option loads a previously created sqlite database file into the markov generator.
-l <filename> or --load <filename>
Read Files This option reads files into the markov generator as sample text.
-r <textfile> or --read <textfile>
Save datafile This option (which happens after generating sentences) writes the markov generator to a sqlite datafile.
-s <filename> or --save <filename>
The save option will clear out all data if the datafile exists.
For corpus, project gutenberg is a good source of text. Of course just about any grammatically valid text will do.
Have fun.
-David Medlock