Choose the Random Word
Learn to read input from the file.
Create a dictionary
If we want to offer different words, we need a list of words from which we can draw a word.
A simple way is to use a file containing one word per dictionary. Here is an example with several words:
#dictionary_fr.txt
a
Bonjour
en
été
In our example, we used French words and added a suffix (_fr) to the file name to show it contains French words. We must start by reading (loading) all words and filling a collection that we can then use to draw words. But we have some constraints:
- All the words must be in lowercase.
- We do not want to keep very short words.
- We do not want words whose letters contain accents. We must remove the accents because our game can’t tell the difference between a letter with an accent and the same letter without an accent.
Read the dictionary
We are going to isolate this task in a file in which we’ll add a routine to load the ...