pickeroo said:

I'm not sure I understand what the program is supposed to be doing in the first few steps. I need clarification before I can respond properly. I'm mostly confused about the "scrambled" part.

Do you mean they are just arbitrarily placed in the list or that the letters are scrambled before the letter sorting starts?
Then once they are sorted by character they are sent to check if the original word was already composed of characters in alphabetical order?

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In list = new In("wordlist.txt");

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I have never seen anyone read a file like that. In fact, I cannot even compile it.

I would use an  instance of Scanner to read your file. It is super useful, because you can tell it what delimiter you want to use, so you could skip the split() command as well

Arugula-375 said:

What is that line?

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In list = new In("wordlist.txt");

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I have never seen anyone read a file like that. In fact, I cannot even compile it.

I would use an  instance of Scanner to read your file. It is super useful, because you can tell it what delimiter you want to use, so you could skip the split() command as well

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if(scrambled[i].equals(sortedList[j])) solved[i] = list[j];

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solved[i] = sortedList[j]

pickeroo said:

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if(scrambled[i].equals(sortedList[j])) solved[i] = list[j];

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Should that not be
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solved[i] = sortedList[j]

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?

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