A simple tool for checking if a word or phrase is a @p substring (a string whose letters form a substring of some legitimate @p).

make produces two executables:

• bin/names: Test each argument for legitimacy as a @p substring. If no arguments are provided, read them from standard input.
• bin/test: Run a test suite.

make also produces patp.txt, which contains every word from your /usr/share/dict/words that's a @p substring. The provided patp.txt is based on the dictionary from my own machine. To rebuild this file from your own dictionary, run rm patp.txt and then make patp.txt.

Lines longer than 64 characters will be ignored when reading from the standard input. Non-ASCII characters, including Unicode characters, are excluded from the matching procedure, which may result in false positives for words such as épée.

Inexact matching is coming soon (e.g. ~midnyt is a reasonable match for midnight).