Until earlier this week I had a dream of running away to Buenos Aires, but even the foreign office advises against that now. In that case, perhaps the traditional thing to do would be join the foreign legion. Perhaps they have an artist’s squadron I could join, where I can sit around drinking espressos and smoking gaulette’s with fine-honed military precision, drilled into me by fierce sculptor-sergeants.
As part of my coursework, I’m creating a text analysis tool. The coursework also states that blog posts are part of the working progress. Therefore, if you’re not on my course or working with Processing in some form, I doubt the post would be interesting to you.
What is the best way of storing a number next to a word?
I want to scan through a document and look for specfic words. I’ve stored the words in a string array. I thought that the best way to deal with the storage of the words would be to create a two dimensional array and store the words in the first array, and the amount of the word searched for in the second array.
This is not so good, actually, because I made a fatal misunderstanding about two dimensional arrays. The first array is more like an index, so where I thought I was creating…
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