diff --git a/src/MorseCodeInterpreter.java b/src/MorseCodeInterpreter.java
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+import token.Token;
+
+import java.util.List;
+
+/**
+ * @author Mark Nash
+ *
+ * The entry point to Morse Code interpreter. Call "interpret" from anywhere
+ * in your code.
+ */
+public class MorseCodeInterpreter {
+
+    /**
+     * A runtime exception that happened while tokenizing a string of
+     * Morse Code. The message of the exception further specifies the issue.
+     */
+    static class MorseCodeRuntimeException extends RuntimeException {
+        MorseCodeRuntimeException(String message) {
+            super(message);
+        }
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Reads the file, creates a list of tokens from the four token types,
+     * parses those tokens into English
+     * @param path A string of the file path to translate
+     * @return The interpreted string, null is returned if the file contained
+     *      incorrect input
+     */
+    public static String interpret(String path) {
+        if (path == null) {
+            throw new IllegalArgumentException(
+                    "Morse Code file path cannot be null.");
+        }
+        List<Token> tokenList;
+        try {
+            tokenList = new MorseCodeTokenizer(path).tokenize();
+        } catch (Exception e) {
+            e.printStackTrace();
+            return null;
+        }
+        String interpretedString = new MorseCodeParser(tokenList).parse();
+        return interpretedString;
+    }
+
+}
diff --git a/src/MorseCodeParser.java b/src/MorseCodeParser.java
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+import token.*;
+
+import java.util.LinkedList;
+import java.util.List;
+
+/**
+ * @author Mark Nash
+ *
+ * Builds the string based on the tokens that have been read in
+ */
+public class MorseCodeParser {
+
+    /** The tokens that have been read in. */
+    private LinkedList<Token> tokenList;
+
+    /**
+     * Each index is a state and the data is the character that that state
+     * corresponds to.
+     */
+    private static final char[] STATES_TO_CHARS = { '\0', 'e', 't', 'i', 'a',
+            'n', 'm', 's', 'u', 'r', 'w', 'd', 'k', 'g', 'o', 'h', 'v', 'f',
+            '\0', 'l', '\0', 'p', 'j', 'b', 'x', 'c', 'y', 'z', 'q', '\0' };
+
+    /** Store the token list. */
+    public MorseCodeParser(List<Token> tokenList) {
+        this.tokenList = (LinkedList<Token>)tokenList;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Create meaning out of the list of tokens
+     * @return The string that the list of tokens translates to
+     */
+    public String parse() {
+        StringBuilder result = new StringBuilder();
+        for (Token token : tokenList) {
+            if (token instanceof CharToken) {
+                result.append(decodeCharacter(token.getValue()));
+            }
+            else if (token instanceof SpaceToken) {
+                result.append(token.getValue());
+            }
+            else if (token instanceof NewLineToken) {
+                result.append(token.getValue());
+            }
+            else {
+                // This is a CharSeparatorToken. The tokenizer has already
+                // separated the characters, so nothing needs to be done
+                // with this
+            }
+        }
+        return result.toString();
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Determine the character from running a DFA state machine.
+     * An example of one can be found here:
+     * http://sound.whsites.net/articles/morse-f5.gif
+     * Each state is numbered starting from 0 going
+     * top to bottom, right to left.
+     *
+     * @param tokenValue A string of '.' and or '-'
+     * @return an ascii character that the Morse Code string corresponds to
+     */
+    private char decodeCharacter(String tokenValue) {
+        int currState = 0;
+        for (char c : tokenValue.toCharArray()) {
+            switch (c) {
+                case '.':
+                    currState = currState * 2 + 1;
+                    break;
+                case '-':
+                    currState = (currState + 1) * 2;
+                    break;
+                default:
+                    // this has already been dealt with during tokenizing
+            }
+        }
+        if (currState > 29) {
+            currState = 29;
+        }
+        char parsedChar = STATES_TO_CHARS[currState];
+
+        if (parsedChar == '\0') {
+            throw new MorseCodeInterpreter.MorseCodeRuntimeException(
+                    "Illegal character: '" + tokenValue + "'");
+        }
+        return parsedChar;
+    }
+}
diff --git a/src/MorseCodeTokenizer.java b/src/MorseCodeTokenizer.java
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+import token.*;
+
+import java.io.*;
+import java.util.LinkedList;
+import java.util.List;
+
+/**
+ * @author Mark Nash
+ *
+ * Creates tokens for the whole file. The tokens are:
+ * || -> a character seperator
+ * |||| -> a space
+ * '\n' -> a newline
+ * '[.-]+' -> a character
+ *
+ * The four legal characters that can show up in a file are:
+ * '.', '-', '|', '\n'
+ */
+public class MorseCodeTokenizer {
+
+    /** The file reader. */
+    private BufferedReader reader;
+
+    /** An illegal character has been found while reading the file. */
+    private static class IllegalMorseCodeCharacterException extends Exception {
+        public IllegalMorseCodeCharacterException(char offendingCharacter) {
+            super("'" + offendingCharacter + "' " + "(" +
+                    (int)offendingCharacter + ") is not a valid character. " +
+                    "Only 4 characters are excepted: '.', '-', '|', and '\\n'");
+        }
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Opens the file and creates a reader object
+     * @param filePath The path of the file to open
+     * @throws FileNotFoundException if the file does not exist.
+     */
+    public MorseCodeTokenizer(String filePath) throws FileNotFoundException {
+        reader = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(filePath));
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Reads the characters in the file and creates tokens out of them.
+     * @return A List of tokens from the reading of the file
+     * @throws MorseCodeInterpreter.MorseCodeRuntimeException A '|' character
+     *      was read without another '|' with it
+     * @throws IllegalMorseCodeCharacterException An unaccepted character of the
+     *      four characters was read
+     * @throws IOException Error closing the file or reading a character
+     */
+    public List<Token> tokenize() throws
+            MorseCodeInterpreter.MorseCodeRuntimeException,
+            IllegalMorseCodeCharacterException,
+            IOException {
+
+        LinkedList<Token> tokenList = new LinkedList<>();
+        StringBuilder currChar = new StringBuilder();
+        int intChar;
+        char c;
+        while ((intChar = reader.read()) != -1) {
+            c = (char)intChar;
+            switch (c) {
+                case '.':
+                case '-':
+                    currChar.append(c);
+                    break;
+                case '|':
+                    intChar = reader.read();
+                    c = (char)intChar;
+                    if (intChar == -1 || c != '|') {
+                        throw new MorseCodeInterpreter.MorseCodeRuntimeException
+                                ("'|' is not a valid token");
+                    }
+                    if (tokenList.size() > 0 && currChar.length() == 0 &&
+                            tokenList.getLast() instanceof CharSeparatorToken) {
+                        tokenList.removeLast();
+                        tokenList.add(new SpaceToken());
+                    } else {
+                        if (currChar.length() != 0) {
+                            tokenList.add(new CharToken(currChar.toString()));
+                            currChar = new StringBuilder();
+                        }
+                        tokenList.add(new CharSeparatorToken());
+                    }
+                    break;
+                case '\r':
+                    break;
+                case '\n':
+                    if (currChar.length() != 0) {
+                        tokenList.add(new CharToken(currChar.toString()));
+                        currChar = new StringBuilder();
+                    }
+                    tokenList.add(new NewLineToken());
+                    break;
+                default:
+                    throw new IllegalMorseCodeCharacterException(c);
+            }
+        }
+        if (currChar.length() != 0) {
+            tokenList.add(new CharToken(currChar.toString()));
+        }
+
+        reader.close();
+        return tokenList;
+    }
+
+}
diff --git a/src/token/CharSeparatorToken.java b/src/token/CharSeparatorToken.java
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+++ b/src/token/CharSeparatorToken.java
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+package token;
+
+/**
+ * @author Mark Nash
+ *
+ * Separates characters in a Morse Code file.
+ */
+public class CharSeparatorToken implements Token {
+
+    @Override
+    public String getValue() {
+        return "||";
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public String toString() {
+        return "CHAR_SEPERATOR";
+    }
+
+}
diff --git a/src/token/CharToken.java b/src/token/CharToken.java
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+++ b/src/token/CharToken.java
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+package token;
+
+/**
+ * @author Mark Nash
+ *
+ * Holds a string of '.' and/or '-'.
+ */
+public class CharToken implements Token {
+
+    private String value;
+
+    public CharToken(String value) {
+        this.value = value;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public String getValue() {
+        return value;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public String toString() {
+        return "'" + value + "'";
+    }
+
+}
diff --git a/src/token/NewLineToken.java b/src/token/NewLineToken.java
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+++ b/src/token/NewLineToken.java
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+package token;
+
+/**
+ * @author Mark Nash
+ *
+ * A newline token.
+ */
+public class NewLineToken implements Token {
+
+    @Override
+    public String getValue() {
+        return "\n";
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public String toString() {
+        return "NEW_LINE";
+    }
+
+}
diff --git a/src/token/SpaceToken.java b/src/token/SpaceToken.java
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+++ b/src/token/SpaceToken.java
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+package token;
+
+/**
+ * @author Mark Nash
+ *
+ * A token that represents a space between characters.
+ */
+public class SpaceToken implements Token {
+
+    @Override
+    public String getValue() {
+        return " ";
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public String toString() {
+        return "SPACE";
+    }
+
+}
diff --git a/src/token/Token.java b/src/token/Token.java
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+++ b/src/token/Token.java
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+package token;
+
+/**
+ * @author Mark Nash
+ *
+ * A sort of token that has a semantic meaning. The data in an instance of one
+ * of these tokens is the meaning, and the name is the token type.
+ */
+public interface Token {
+
+    String getValue();
+}
diff --git a/test/MorseCodeInterpreterTest.java b/test/MorseCodeInterpreterTest.java
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+++ b/test/MorseCodeInterpreterTest.java
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+public class MorseCodeInterpreterTest {
+
+    public static void main(String[] args) {
+        for (String path : args) {
+            test(path);
+        }
+    }
+
+    private static void test(String path) {
+        System.out.println(path + " {\n" +
+                MorseCodeInterpreter.interpret(path) +
+                "\n}\n");
+    }
+}
diff --git a/test/alphabet.txt b/test/alphabet.txt
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+++ b/test/alphabet.txt
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+.-||-...||-.-.||-..||.||..-.||--.||....||..||.---||-.-||.-..||--||-.||---||.--.||--.-||.-.||...||-||..-||...-||.--||-..-||-.--||--..
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/test/given.txt b/test/given.txt
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+++ b/test/given.txt
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+-..||---||--.
+....||.||.-..||.-..||---||||.--||---||.-.||.-..||-..
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/test/spacing.txt b/test/spacing.txt
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+++ b/test/spacing.txt
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+
+.-||-.
+.-||||-.
+.-||||||||-.
diff --git a/test/stress.txt b/test/stress.txt
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+++ b/test/stress.txt
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+
+
+..
+
+.||.--.||||.-.||-.-||--||-..||.--.||||||||-
+..||||....||---||.--.||.||||-.--||---||..-||||.-..||..||-.-||.||||--||-.--||||-.-.||---||-..||.