wordpuzzle entire JAVA assignment | Programming Concepts and Methodology Lab 3

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Lab description:

Your program will open the wordpuzzle.dat file. The first portion contains the search words, a three asterisk divider and the lines for the word search puzzle.



//search words “needles”

computer

plum

copy

chair

friday

ferret

*** //three asterisk divider

Gypocriahc //lines for the word search “haystacks”

ferretmulp

computerfo

vrlyplumoo

yupterreff

moyadirfoy

cpzcopysvj

chairbidoq

```



The following words can be found in the forward horizontal direction



| word | row | column |

| --------- |:----- :|:------ :|

| computer | 3 | 1 |

| plum | 4 | 5 |

| copy | 7 | 4 |

| chair | 8 | 1 |

| ferret | 2 | 1 |



The following word can't be found in the horizontal forward direction.

The following table shows a -1 as the result because the word wasn't

found.



| word | row | col |

| --------- |:-----:|:------:|

| friday | -1 | -1 |









## Getting started



Open the wordpuzzle.dat file using a try catch statement
Load the search words into an array called needles (of size 6)
Load the puzzle lines into an array called haystack (of size 8)
Sort needles using Arrays.sort
For each word in needles, search through the haystack using array and string functions to see if it is hidden in the haystack.


When found, your message must say for example word “computer” was found

At row 3 and column 1.



If a word is not found, output the following:



friday was not found



Make sure to search the entire puzzle for all the words.





## Collaboration

Work with your partner to complete the program