generate static method

List<String> generate(String word)

Given a word will produce a List of greeklish variations.

GreeklishGenerator.generate('αυτοκίνητο') == ['autokinhto','aftokinhto','avtokinhto','aytokinhto','autokinito','aftokinito','avtokinito','aytokinito']

Implementation

static List<String> generate(String word) {
  // we work with the lowercase version
  word = word.toLowerCase();

  // if word does not contain any greek chars then stop
  if (!_containsGreekChars(word)) {
    return List<String>.from([word]);
  }

  // replace accents
  _ACCENTS.forEach((key, value) => word = word.replaceAll(key, value));

  // replace digraphs
  _DIGRAPH_CASES.forEach((key, value) => word = word.replaceAll(key, value));

  List<String> wordVariations = [];

  // generate words from all possible rune conversions
  for (final int rune in word.runes) {
    if (wordVariations.isEmpty) {
      for (final String greeklishVariation
          in _produceGreeklishVeriations(rune)) {
        wordVariations.add(greeklishVariation);
      }
    } else {
      final List<String> newTokens = [];

      for (final String greeklishVariation
          in _produceGreeklishVeriations(rune)) {
        for (final String token in wordVariations) {
          newTokens.add('$token$greeklishVariation');
        }
      }
      wordVariations = newTokens;
    }
  }

  return wordVariations;
}