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Re: Array problem- struggling 1st Year student

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From: someguy
Date: Thu, 18 May 2000 00:00
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hey i know the assignment your doing... by any chance is it for a subject
perhaps that might be called 410? hahaha..member you are supposed to
implement it in a command line interface instead of a gui as the primary
interface.
"Alan Boldock" <aboldock@camtech.net.au> wrote in message
news:lGHU4.35613$PL4.717065@ozemail.com.au...
> Perhaps you should read your streamTokzenizer and retrieve each word
> and either stuff them in a Vector or read the file twice and do it the
first
> time just to get the word count. Use this word count to initialise your
> array (to that size) then read the file again putting each word into the
> Array.
>
> A better one pass approach would be to read each word into a Vector
> (You don't need to initialise a Vector with a size) then at the end get
> the vector size, make the array then use the Vector.copyInto(Object[])
> method to read your Vector into your array.
>
> There are more sophisticated approaches but for a beginner this is an easy
> conceptual approach.
>
> Alan
>
>
>
> "Funtybugwana" <funtybugwana@icqmail.com> wrote in message
> news:L1lU4.43$GC4.489545@news0.optus.net.au...
> > Can one of you good people please give me a pointer on how to initialise
> an
> > array with information which I have pulled from a text file..
> >
> > The assignment which I have been given is to use arrays to pull all
words
> > from any document, count occurences of the word and sort it in
order..Not
> a
> > hard task.. well Im dying..
> >
> > I have used streamTokeniser to pull in the document using a GUI
interface
> > which is great but thats about it, I cannot work out how to get that
info
> > into the array with the text book and lecture notes given... Please help
> me
> >
> > Mark
> >
> >
>
>
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