Search files for word replacement

[Sarahger9]

Hi,
I'm working on a project that searches one file for words and their replacements found in another file. I'm stuck at the beginning. I think, I need to put the words in the file in an array so I can search the array, but I'm not sure how to do this. If someone could help me get started I can work on the rest of the code.
Thanks

[Ganon11]

I don't really understand your program: could you elaborate a bit more? I think it might be good if we could see an example of these two text files.

[Sarahger9]

Ok, sorry for the confusion. The one file is just a text file, a short story that I have to search for words in. The other file, is another text file, that looks like this:

Harry Harold
scar mark
mom mum
magic mystery
I Me

The first column is the words I'm looking for, the second column is the word I need to replace the first column with.
If you could get me started I would greatly appreciate it. Right now, all my code does is open both files and count the words in the text file.

Thanks

[Ganon11]

To prevent this from getting really long, I would look at the words one at a time. So you take one word from your story file. If you can find that word in your replacement file, then replace it. If you don't find it in the replacement file, don't do anything about it. Once you're done with a word, write it to a new file. At the end, your new file will have the 'updated' story.

[sicarie]

Sarahger9-

I changed your thread title to be a bit more descriptive, please try to do so as well in the future, it will help get your question answered more promptly (as people who have experience with your issue will then be able to see that).

[weaknessforcats]

Take a deep breath and slow down.

From what I read, you have been coding. To do that, it means you have written down your method and are just implementing it. I going to take a chance here and guess that you haven't written down the steps you need to follow to achieve this. If this guess is correct then your coding just lurches around until it kinda mabybe works.

Define you algorithm:
1) read data file record in memory
2) for each word in the record, search the other file for a replacement.
3) if found, replace the word in the record in memory
etc...