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Asked: 2026-05-27T10:41:50+00:00

I want to copy http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/collections/interfaces/examples/dictionary.txt into an array for hangman game. I have this

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I want to copy http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/collections/interfaces/examples/dictionary.txt into an array for hangman game. I have this so far..

url = new URL("http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutor… );
urlConn = url.openConnection();
urlConn.getInputStream());

inStream in = new InputStreamReader("dictionary.txt");
urlConn.getInputStream());
BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(in));

String nextLine;
String[] secretwordbank;
secretwordbank = new String[80368];

secretwordbank is an array representing a dictionary of words. This may be too big of an array so I’m open for ideas to optimize it. Anyone know how to do it?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Are you really just unsure how to convert a BufferedReader into an array (or other collection) of strings, based on line breaks? If so, I’d suggest using Guava:

    List<String> lines = CharStreams.readLines(reader);

    (As an aside, I would suggest specifying an encoding when creating the InputStreamReader – otherwise it will use the platform default encoding. Ideally, you should use the content-type header from the response to determine the encoding… there are higher-level HTTP libraries which will do all of this for you, such as HttpClient.)

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