make a spellcheck

[tough kelp]

i want to make Scrabble like game how do i keep like a dictionary/database file for spellcheck?
what kind of file should i use?

[tardy zinc]

you could either include a word database in your included files and then load it on gamestart or simply hardcode it in a script (altho the first part is better overall)

you could split for lines and read every word by itself

var file = file_text_open_read(working_directory + "yourwordlist.txt")

global.words = []

while !file_text_eof(file)
{
  array_push(global.words, file_text_readln(file));
}

file_text_close(file);

loading would roughly look like that

[sinful edge]

if you make a text file that's just all the words comma-separated, you can load the whole string onto a variable, then use string_split to separate it into an array

can also have a json which is just 1 array, then load the json wholesale and boom you have an array

[tough kelp]

Thank you very much

[mental jacinth]

may I suggest my own library? Looks like a good match.

https://github.com/Homunculus84/Binder

alternatively, if all you need is prefix + full word matching from a sorted list, you could just grab the binary search script from the docs.

If all you need is checking a word exists / doesn’t exist, a struct is enough