Learning Processing, 2nd Edition

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Data Input

A million monkeys were given a million typewriters. It’s called the Internet.

—Simon Munnery

In this chapter:

– Manipulating strings

– Reading and writing text files

– Tabular data

– Word counting and text analysis

– XML and JSON data

– Threads

– Using data from APIs

This chapter will move beyond displaying text and examine how to use String objects as the basis for reading and writing data. I’ll start by covering more sophisticated methods for manipulating strings, searching in them, chopping them up, and joining them together. Afterward, I will show how these skills allow you to use input from data sources such as text files, web pages, XML feeds, JSON data, and third party APIs, and you’ll also take a step into the world of data visualization. ...