Dictonary

I am creating a simple word find. The users selects tiles that have letters on them.

After a word is selected, I need to compare it to a dictionary list of words.

The list is in csv format. There is no key value, just a single stream of words.

I have googled until I am blue in the face, I do not understand how to load a dictionary. Can anyone send me a link to an example that works.

 

You can load a csv with System.IO. Once you have the data loaded, you can move it into an array with string.Split. I would then suggest adding it to a HashSet for fast searching.

Dictionary has a specific meaning in C#. You don't actually want to use a dictionary. So drop that off your search terms.

 

If it's just a stream of words, separated by a comma or space, you can use a stream reader, and use comma or space as a delimiter.

http://www.codeproject.com/Questions/228537/Reading-delimited-text-file-to-an-array

 

Can you change your list from CSV to each word being on a single line? If so, you could use the code below that I'm using to read in a word list.

Also, in case this helps, there's some good info on this page: http://wiki.unity3d.com/index.php/Choosing_the_right_collection_type

Code (CSharp):

1.     void LoadWordList(string filename, int minLength=2)
2.     {
3.         allWords = new List<string>();
4.        
5.         using (StreamReader r = new StreamReader(filename))
6.         {
7.             string oneLine = "";
8.             while ((oneLine = r.ReadLine()) != null)
9.             {
10.                 // don't grab words below a minimum length
11.                 if (oneLine.Length > minLength)
12.                 {
13.                     allWords.Add(oneLine);
14.                 }
15.             }
16.         }
17.     }
18.  

That's modified from an example I found on StackOverflow. In my Awake() function I load it like this:

Code (CSharp):

1. LoadWordList ("Assets/Resources/ospd.txt");

(You'd need to change the location of your word list, of course.)

And then when I want to see if the chosen word is actually in the list I do this:

Code (CSharp):

1. if (allWords.Contains(chosenWord))
2.     //do something here

Oh yeah, you can also pass in an optional "minimum length" when you load the word list -- that way if you don't want 1 or 2-letter words you just don't load them into the list.

I hope that helps.

Jay

 

This worked great. Thank you! Although after importing system.io I had to explicitly call unitygame.random. not a big deal.
For some reason I thought Unity would handle it differently. Thank you everyone!