# Can someone please explain what this sample function is upto?

So there is a function in Dino_Name_Generator at Deeplearning.ai notebook

def sample(parameters, char_to_ix, seed):
# Retrieve parameters and relevant shapes from "parameters" dictionary
Waa, Wax, Wya, by, b = parameters['Waa'], parameters['Wax'],parameters['Wya'], parameters['by'], parameters['b']
vocab_size = by.shape[0]
n_a = Waa.shape[1]

### START CODE HERE ###
# Step 1: Create the one-hot vector x for the first character (initializing the sequence generation). (≈1 line)
x = np.zeros((vocab_size, 1))

# Step 1': Initialize a_prev as zeros (≈1 line)
a_prev = np.zeros((n_a, 1))

# Create an empty list of indices, this is the list which will contain the list of indices of the characters to generate (≈1 line)
indices = []

# Idx is a flag to detect a newline character, we initialize it to -1
idx = -1

# Loop over time-steps t. At each time-step, sample a character from a probability distribution and append
# its index to "indices". We'll stop if we reach 50 characters (which should be very unlikely with a well
# trained model), which helps debugging and prevents entering an infinite loop.
counter = 0
newline_character = char_to_ix['\n']

while (idx != newline_character and counter != 50):

# Step 2: Forward propagate x using the equations (1), (2) and (3)
a = np.tanh(np.dot(Wax, x) + np.dot(Waa, a_prev) + b)
z = np.dot(Wya, a) + by
y = softmax(z)

np.random.seed(counter+seed)

# Step 3: Sample the index of a character within the vocabulary from the probability distribution y
idx = np.random.choice(vocab_size, size=None, p = y.ravel())

# Append the index to "indices"
indices.append(idx)

# Step 4: Overwrite the input character as the one corresponding to the sampled index.
x = np.zeros((vocab_size, 1))
x[[idx]] = 1

# Update "a_prev" to be "a"
a_prev = a

seed += 1
counter +=1

### END CODE HERE ###

if (counter == 50):
indices.append(char_to_ix['\n'])

return indices


I want to understand the text processing in the link carried out before feeding into the network.

You are returning the indices from a dictionary you gave as argument. Why should you use char_to_integer indices.