From 2513999d29a854324154d641ef86454d081d8c7e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: eugenefischer <ej@eugenefischer.com>
Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2020 16:26:13 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] stripping out punctuation

---
 Sorting/RandomWordFileReader.java | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Sorting/RandomWordFileReader.java b/Sorting/RandomWordFileReader.java
index a04c02c..9c87ad1 100644
--- a/Sorting/RandomWordFileReader.java
+++ b/Sorting/RandomWordFileReader.java
@@ -14,10 +14,13 @@ public class RandomWordFileReader {
     public RandomWordFileReader(String filename){
         try(BufferedReader reader = Files.newBufferedReader(Path.of(filename));){
             //This should use flatMap to make a string array from the line, and then turn the elements of that array into a stream, which goes to forEach
-            reader.lines().flatMap(line -> Arrays.stream(line.split("\\s+"))).forEach(word -> words.add(word.toLowerCase()));
+            reader.lines().flatMap(line -> Arrays.stream(line.split("[\\s\\W_0]+"))).forEach(word -> words.add(word.toLowerCase()));
         }catch (IOException ex){
             System.err.println(ex);
         }
+        /*for (String e : words) {
+            e = e.replaceAll("\\W+","");
+        }*/
     }
 
     public ArrayList<String> getWords(){