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let lines;

let words = [];

let wordChain = {};

let currentWord;

let newPoem = "";

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function preload() {

  lines = loadStrings("combo.txt"); 

}

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function setup() {

  createCanvas(1, 1);

  background(255, 0, 0);

  // print(lines);

  for(let i = 0; i < lines.length; i +=1) {

    let wordsInLine = splitTokens(lines[i]);

    for (let j = 0; j < wordsInLine.length; j+=1) {

      wordsInLine[j] = wordsInLine[j].toLowerCase();

      wordsInLine[j] = wordsInLine[j].replace(/[-_:;.,!?\(\)]/g, "");

    }

    words = words.concat(wordsInLine);

  }

  // words = shuffle(words);

  // interate through all of the words, and store the word that 

  // follows each word

  for (let i = 0; i < words.length-1; i +=1) {

    let word = words[i];

    let nextWord = words[i+1];

    if (wordChain[word] === undefined) {

      wordChain[word] = [nextWord]; 

    } else {

      wordChain[word].push(nextWord) ;

    }    

  }

  currentWord = words[0];

  for (let i = 0; i < words.length; i +=1) {

    newPoem = newPoem + currentWord + " ";

    let nextPossibleWords = wordChain[currentWord];

    let nextWord = nextPossibleWords[int(random(0, nextPossibleWords.length))];

    currentWord = nextWord;

  }

  // let newPoem = join(words, " ");

  let p = createP(newPoem);

}

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function draw() {

}

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