README.md

Periodic

Periodic table word thinger.

This is a command-line tool to help you make words out of element symbols. It has no real practical purpose.

Usage

usage: periodic.pl [OPTIONS] [flags]

Where options are:
-s --symbol        display details for the element with the specified symbol
-a --atomicnumber  display details for the element with the specified atomic number
-w --word          try to spell a word with letters from the periodic table
-t --table         display the standard periodic table of the elements
-h --help          this help message

and where flags are:
-c --color         display colored and prettified elements
-v --verbose       don't stop at first (best) match, display all matches

Options and flags may not be combined.

Examples

Display every matching version of the word 'counterespionage'¹ built from element symbols.

periodic.pl -w counterespionage -v

Display the entire table, in color.

periodic.pl -t -c

Footnotes

1. this is the longest word I could match in the standard dictionary that came with my distro. ↩