[mon_e_mons]

I'm making a program for class that is supposed to write one word at a time to a text file and append it to whatever is there. It writes the file with no delimiters or new lines or capitalization. So if you entered "apple" and then entered "orange" and then "banana" the file will read "appleorangebanana". The program also has a read button that is supposed to read one word at a time and put it in a text field. How do you make the program figure out where apple ends and orange begins? I'm also not allowed to write a separate index file. This seems impossible to me but supposedly people have figured this out before.

[Martyr2]

Well there is only two ways you can know what is the beginning verses the end of each "token". You either have to insert a delimiter like a space (which sounds like what they want you to do) or keep track of the length of each token... for instance inserting "apple" and then storing "5" somewhere so when you read you know to read 5 characters.

So you might be missing an important detail somewhere.

[pbl]

You can write as a byte 5 than as bytes a p p l e
then as a byte 6 then as bytes o r a n g e
or use " ", "," "\t", "|", "/", ... as delimiters

[g00se]

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How do you make the program figure out where apple ends and orange begins? I'm also not allowed to write a separate index file. This seems impossible to me but supposedly people have figured this out before.

I thought we'd been through this? It's not possible (short of checking in a dictionary)

[pbl]

Yes we went throug this. Thanks g00se
http://www.dreaminco...1&#entry1746723

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