I am trying to filter out an array of stopwords from an array of source words to make an array of clean words. This code does not work but I hope illustrates what I am trying to do.
Any ideas anyone how to do this?

Quote:

You'll also want to check all the stopwords before appending to the clean list.  Otherwise the clean list will come out saying:

yes yes yes nice nice nice happy happy happy stop stop lovely lovely lovely now now

Try implementing a find function, so it's clear you only check each word once per stopword.  Something like:

Code:

boolean find(String toFind, String[] words) {
  for(int i=0; i < words.length; i++) {  
    if(toFind.equals(words[i])) {
	return true;
    } 
  }
  return false;
}
 

Then your loop becomes:

Code:

String mywords[] = {
  "yes","nice","happy","stop","lovely","now"};
String stopwords[] = {
  "no","stop","now"};
String cleanWords[] = {
};
 
for(int i=0; i < mywords.length; i++) {  
  if(!find(mywords[i],stopwords)) {  
    cleanWords = append(cleanWords, mywords[i]);
  }
}

println(cleanWords); // yes nice happy lovely?
 
 

All untested, but you get the idea.