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diff --git a/lib/cli_user.js b/lib/cli_user.js
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+let path = require('path');
+
+console.log(`
+     Welcome to the node dictionary reader
+     =====================================
+     Type q to quit
+`)
+
+let loader = require('./loading.js');
+
+
+function one() {
+
+  // Start listening to STDIN
+  process.stdin.resume();
+  process.stdin.setEncoding('utf8');
+
+  // Inline function to handle
+  // message output
+
+  var dictarr;
+
+  var showMessage = (err) => {
+    console.log('Select from available dictionaries');
+    loader.availableDictionaries().then((result) => {
+      let i = 0;
+      result.forEach((item) => {
+          console.log(i + ". " + item);
+          i++;
+      })
+
+      dictarr = result
+    });
+}
+/* console.log(item)}
+ console.log("1: " + result[0])});
+    loader.availableDictionaries().then(
+    if (err) {
+      console.error(err);
+    }
+  };
+*/
+  // Display message
+  showMessage();
+
+
+  // Handler for STDIN data
+  // event
+  var onData = (data) => {
+    data = data.trim();
+
+    // If user input "next"
+    // let's go to the next
+    // state
+    if (data === 'next') {
+      process.stdin.pause();
+      process.stdin.removeListener('data', onData);
+
+      // ----------------------------------------
+      // Go to next view here
+      // ----------------------------------------
+
+    } else if (Number(data) != NaN) {
+
+      let num = Number(data)
+
+      //console.log('this is the output of the array' + ' ' + dictarr[num]);
+      var pathname = path.join(__dirname, "..", "/data" + `/${dictarr[num]}`)
+
+      //loader.loadFile(pathname)
+
+      loader.loadFile(pathname).then((result) => {
+        let letterCount = (words) => {
+          letter_count = {};
+          for (let i = 0; i < words.length; i++) {
+            if (letter_count[words[i][0].toLowerCase()] === undefined) {
+              letter_count[words[i][0].toLowerCase()] = 1;
+            } else {
+              letter_count[words[i][0].toLowerCase()] += 1;
+            }
+          }
+          return letter_count;
+        }
+        // Logging letter counts
+        console.log(letterCount(Object.keys(result)));
+
+        //creating variable for the dictionary's data
+
+        var dictionaryData = result;
+
+        let search = require('./search.js')
+
+        //console.log(search.exactMatch(dictionaryData, 'abate'));
+
+        console.log(search.beginMatch(dictionaryData, 'ab'));
+        //return result
+      })
+
+
+      //console.log(search.exactMatch(dictionaryData, 'abate'))
+    } else {
+
+      // All other input is invalid
+      showMessage(`Invalid: ${ data }`);
+    }
+  };
+
+  // Set the listener
+  process.stdin.on('data', onData);
+}
+
+// Start the app
+one();
diff --git a/lib/dictionary_data.js b/lib/dictionary_data.js
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+
+// Dictionary data module
+
+let letterCount = (words) => {
+  letter_count = {};
+  for (let i = 0; i < words.length; i++) {
+    if (letter_count[words[i][0].toLowerCase()] === undefined) {
+      letter_count[words[i][0].toLowerCase()] = 1;
+    } else {
+      letter_count[words[i][0].toLowerCase()] += 1;
+    }
+  }
+  return letter_count;
+}
+
+
+
+
+module.exports.loadInformation = (data) => {
+  console.log("Successfully loaded data");
+  console.log("Word count: ");
+}
diff --git a/lib/loading.js b/lib/loading.js
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+++ b/lib/loading.js
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+var fs = require('fs')
+let path = require('path');
+
+//let dictionaryPath = path.join(__dirname, "..", "/data/dictionary.json");
+
+module.exports.loadFile = (chosenPath) => {
+  /*
+  if(num == 1){
+    var chosenPath = path.join(__dirname, "..", "/data/dictionary.json")
+  }
+  else if(num == 2){
+    var chosenPath = path.join(__dirname, "..", "/data/dictionarytest.json")
+  }
+  else
+  */
+  return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
+    fs.readFile(chosenPath, 'utf8', (err, data) => {
+    //if(err){throw 'file not found'}
+    /*
+    return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
+      resolve(JSON.parse(data))
+    })
+    */
+    if(err){
+      reject('loadfile failed')
+    }
+     resolve(JSON.parse(data));
+    })
+  })
+}
+
+let dirPath = path.join(__dirname, "..", "/data");
+
+module.exports.availableDictionaries = () => {
+  return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
+    fs.readdir(dirPath, (err, data) => {
+      resolve(data)
+      //console.log(data);
+    });
+  })
+}
+
+// module.exports.loadFile = loadFile;
+// module.exports.availableDictionaries = availableDictionaries;
+
+
+// = {
+//  "loadFile": loadFile,
+//  "availableDictionaries": availableDictionaries
+// }
diff --git a/lib/search.js b/lib/search.js
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+const exactMatch = (dictionaryData, searchWord) => {
+  let keys = Object.keys(dictionaryData)
+  let match = new RegExp(`${searchWord}`)
+  return match.exec(keys)[0]
+}
+
+const beginMatch = (dictionaryData, beginsWith) => {
+  let keys = Object.keys(dictionaryData)
+  return keys.map((item) => {
+    if(item.indexOf(beginsWith) === 0){
+      return item
+    }
+  })
+  //return match.exec(keys)[0]
+
+}
+
+module.exports = {
+  beginMatch,
+  exactMatch
+}
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+++ b/warmup/index.js
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+function one() {
+
+  // Start listening to STDIN
+  process.stdin.resume();
+  process.stdin.setEncoding('utf8');
+
+  // Inline function to handle
+  // message output
+  var showMessage = (err) => {
+    console.log('State one');
+    console.log('Type "next" to continue');
+    if (err) {
+      console.error(err);
+    }
+  };
+
+  // Display message
+  showMessage();
+
+
+  // Handler for STDIN data
+  // event
+  var onData = (data) => {
+    data = data.trim();
+
+    // If user input "next"
+    // let's go to the next
+    // state
+    if (data === 'next') {
+      process.stdin.pause();
+      process.stdin.removeListener('data', onData);
+
+     two();
+
+    } else {
+
+      // All other input is invalid
+      showMessage(`Invalid: ${ data }`);
+    }
+  };
+
+  // Set the listener
+  process.stdin.on('data', onData);
+}
+
+// Start the app
+one();
+
+function two() {
+  // Start listening to STDIN
+  process.stdin.resume();
+  process.stdin.setEncoding('utf8');
+
+  // Inline function to handle
+  // message output
+  var showMessage = (err) => {
+    console.log('State two');
+    console.log('Type "next" to continue');
+    if (err) {
+      console.error(err);
+    }
+  };
+
+  showMessage();
+
+  // Handler for STDIN data
+  // event
+  var onData = (data) => {
+    data = data.trim();
+
+    // If user input "next"
+    // let's go to the next
+    // state
+    if (data === 'next') {
+      process.stdin.pause();
+      process.stdin.removeListener('data', onData);
+
+      three();
+
+    } else {
+
+      // All other input is invalid
+      showMessage(`Invalid: ${ data }`);
+    }
+
+  };
+
+  // Set the listener
+  process.stdin.on('data', onData);
+
+}
+
+
+function three() {
+  // Start listening to STDIN
+  process.stdin.resume();
+  process.stdin.setEncoding('utf8');
+
+  // Inline function to handle
+  // message output
+  var showMessage = (err) => {
+    console.log('State three');
+    console.log('Type "next" to continue');
+    if (err) {
+      console.error(err);
+    }
+  };
+
+  showMessage();
+
+  // Handler for STDIN data
+  // event
+  var onData = (data) => {
+    data = data.trim();
+
+    // If user input "next"
+    // let's go to the next
+    // state
+    if (data === 'next') {
+      process.stdin.pause();
+      process.stdin.removeListener('data', onData);
+
+      console.log("Goodbye");
+      process.exit();
+
+    } else {
+
+      // All other input is invalid
+      showMessage(`Invalid: ${ data }`);
+    }
+
+  };
+
+  // Set the listener
+  process.stdin.on('data', onData);
+
+}
+
+