I was writing a program which implement a spelling checker that reads from a standard dictionary file by using Array. This is my first time using Array and I don't really know how to recall methods. So, I think I made a mistake at Boolean method because the Eclipse kept giving me either one answer for both correct and incorrect words. Would anyone help me fixing my code?
import java.util.Scanner;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
public class CheckingWords {
public static void main(String[] args) throws FileNotFoundException
{
Scanner input = new Scanner(System.in);
System.out.println("Enter the word you would like to spell check");
String userWord = input.nextLine();
final String filename = "americanWords.txt";
String[] words = dictionary(filename);
boolean correctSpelling = checkWord(words, userWord);
if (correctSpelling)
{
System.out.println("That word is not correct");
}
else
{
System.out.println("That is the correct spelling");
}
}
public static String[] dictionary(String filename) throws FileNotFoundException
{
final String fileName = "americanWords.txt";
Scanner dictionary = new Scanner(new File(fileName));
int dictionaryLength =0;
while (dictionary.hasNext())
{
++dictionaryLength;
dictionary.nextLine();
}
String [] words = new String[dictionaryLength];
for ( int i = 0; i < words.length ; i++)
dictionary.close();
return words;
}
public static boolean checkWord(String[] dictionary, String userWord)
{
boolean correctSpelling = false;
for ( int i =0; i < dictionary.length; i++)
{
if (userWord.equals(dictionary[i]))
{
correctSpelling = true;
}
else
correctSpelling = false;
}
return correctSpelling;
}
}
You'll only get the 'correctSpelling' if that is the last word in the dictionary. Exit the loop when you find it.
public static boolean checkWord(String[] dictionary, String userWord)
{
for ( int i =0; i < dictionary.length; i++)
{
if (userWord.equals(dictionary[i]))
{
return true;
}
}
return false;
}