let str = '';

let p;

​

function preload() {

  loadStrings('poem.txt', process);

}

​

function setup() {

  createCanvas(0, 0);

  p = createP();

}

​

function draw() {

  //background(220);

  //text(random(words),0,0)

​

  // Draw next word every half second

  if (frameCount % 30 == 0) {

    // Add another word to the string and a whitespace

    str += random(words) + ' ';

    // Update paragraph element

    p.html(str); 

    }

​

}

​

function process(lines) {

  // Go line by line by value

  for (let line of lines) {

    // Turn each line into an array of words

    let tokens = splitTokens(line);

    // Add it to 1 big array

    words = words.concat(tokens);

  }

​

  // Go word by word, by index

  // Clean up each word

  for (let w = words.length - 1; w >= 0; w--) {

    let word = words[w];

    // Remove punctuation

    word = word.replace(/[-_:;.,!?()]/g, '');

    // Make it all lowercase

    word = word.toLowerCase();

    // Get rid of whitespace around the word

    word = word.trim();

    // If nothing is left, get rid of it

    if (word.length < 1) words.splice(w, 1);

    // Otherwise put cleaned up word back in array

    else words[w] = word;

  }

}

​