should be part of DictionaryEntry.java

DictionaryEntry.java

	/**
	 * Lookup a word in the dictionary file
	 * 
	 * @param word - the word we are looking for
	 * @return a string array with the word, the translation and description 
	 * 			or null if the word can't be found
	 * @throws IOException
	 */
	public static String[] lookupWord(String word) throws IOException {
		
		List<String> lines = readFileFromDisk(new File("dictionary.txt"));
		String[] words = null;
		
		/* 
		 * iterate over all lines
		 * stop if we find a line which begins with the word we're looking for
		 */
		for (String thisLine : lines){
			if (thisLine.startsWith(word)){
				words = thisLine.split(",");
				break;
			}
		}
	
		return words;
	}


	/**
	 * Read a text file from disk and return it as a list of strings.
	 * @param filename
	 * @return list of strings, each string is one line from the file
	 * @throws IOException
	 */
	private static List<String> readFileFromDisk(File filename) throws IOException {
		
		List<String> lines = new ArrayList<String>();
		BufferedReader inputStream = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(filename));
		String line;
		while ((line = inputStream.readLine()) != null) {
			lines.add(line);
		}

		return lines;
	}