How do I populate an array with words from an external dictionary file that are delimited by newline

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  • I have an external text file with all the words, each on a newline. The file contains all the words of a dictionary. I would like to read the contents of the file into my construct 3 project and store them into an array with each individual word stored as an element in the array.

  • Does it need to be a text file, and will its content change often? In other words - do you need to read specifically that text file every time the game starts?

    If not, then it will be easier to create a new array file in the project and manually import all words from the file into it. If you create enough empty cells, you should be able to copy/paste all words at once.

    You will still need to request the array file with AJAX.

  • Yes, the external file is read once when the game starts. I've tried AJAX to read the file into a variable with AJAX.LastData which was successful. The problem I'm having is to split the variable data into individual words and storing the words into a Construct array. I can't get Construct to do it either using its native built-in events or JS code blocks. Nothing seems to work. I'm missing something!

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  • Ok, if you definitely need to parse the text file, then here is the code: 

    System Repeat tokencount(s, newline) times
.. Array push back tokenat(s, loopindex, newline)

    's' is the variable containing AJAX.LastData. Make sure to set array default width to 0.

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