Assigning Words to an Array

Ok so i have this assignment. I have a shell file that reads and writes and tokenizes the file and takes the words and adds them to the output file. The shell works fine but for the assignment, i need to do little bit more.

I need to pass the words into an array of strings obvi. But heres the catch, if a word appears more than once in the text file, the array is only suppose to contain the word once. Basically, what the array is to contain is a lit of alll the words in the text file.

So i need to know how to fill the array from the text file and and if anyone has a method on how to alphabetize the words, that would help too.

I use Textpad to write code

The way I'd do it would be to put the Strings into a HashSet<String>. ;)

you mean using something like this ?

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String [] a=array.split();

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I recently wrote a program that Scrambles words in a file, I'll attach it. Look over it, check how I did it. Note: I only used StringTokenizer in it because I needed to keep the delimiters. You should use regular expressions unless you need to count the delimiters as tokens. Save the file as .java so you can see syntax hilighting in an IDE (or TextPad). The only thing my class doesn't have is checking to not have the same word twice, but that wouldn't be hard - using an ArrayList and its contains method jumps to mind. Hope this helps.
-MK12

Use of regular expressions is much better. StringTokernizer can be deprecated soon with the latest JDK release.

I know, but with regular expressions it is impossible to count the delimiters as tokens. You can with StringTokenizer. That's the only reason to use it. In future release, if they deprecate StringTokenizer, they must also allow regular expressions to count delimiters as tokens.
-MK12

@MK12 - it's not impossible (look at look-behind and look-ahead matching), but it is a bit clumsy.

It's not worth the extra effort to try doing it with regex instead of StringTokenizer when you need the delimiters counted as tokens.

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Originally Posted by MK12

I know, but with regular expressions it is impossible to count the delimiters as tokens. You can with StringTokenizer. That's the only reason to use it. In future release, if they deprecate StringTokenizer, they must also allow regular expressions to count delimiters as tokens.
-MK12

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I agreed with you. That's why I say use of regular expressions is much better, not the only way. Reason is as neilcoffey says, counting tokens in regular expressions is really mess.

Yeah I know.

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Originally Posted by ScaryJello

how to fill the array from the text file and

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what you mean saying array from text file... so you have a code array in your text file or you just mean to take string and then seperate each word in it and make an array of it? or you have a list in your text file and just want to read it into your array? quite confused (((