Thread: counting words of a text file

Hi,
I am having problems counting the number of words in a text file that i created (it has 130...input.txt) and printing that finding (number) into another text file (output)....Any help is welcomed. I have this, but it prints individual counts not a whole..and my other question is how would i print vowel/count them 2.?

iimport java.io.*;
 
public class FileIO {
	 public static void main(String[] args) {
 
		String filename = "G:\\Java 1302\\project\\FILEIO\\src\\input.txt"; // Relative pathname -- place in project directory
		String fileContents = "G:\\Java 1302\\project\\FILEIO\\src\\output.txt"; // String to hold the contents eventually
 
		try {
 
		FileReader fr = new FileReader(filename);
		BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(fr);
		String lineRead = br.readLine();
		while(lineRead != null){
		fileContents = fileContents + "\n" + lineRead;
		lineRead = br.readLine();
				}
 
		br.close();
 
		} catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
		e.printStackTrace(); // Display the error
		System.exit(1); // Stop the program from running
		} catch (IOException e) {
		e.printStackTrace();
		System.exit(1);
		}
 
		String[] wordList = fileContents.split("\\s");
		int size = wordList.length;
 
		String [] words;
		int [] counts;
		words = new String [size];
		counts = new int [size];
 
 
		for(int i = 0; i < size; i++){
		words[i] = wordList[i];
		for(int j = 0; j < size; j++){
		if(words[i].equals (wordList[j])){
		counts[i] = counts[i] +1;
		}
		}
		System.out.println( " " + counts[i]);
		}
 
		String outputFilename = "G:\\Java 1302\\project\\FILEIO\\src\\output.txt";
 
		try {
		FileWriter fw = new FileWriter(outputFilename);
		BufferedWriter bw = new BufferedWriter(fw); // Use bw.write to write to the file
 
		for(int i = 1; i < size; i++){
		bw.write(words[i] + ":" + counts[i] + "\n");
		}
		bw.close(); // Always remember to close the file
		} catch (IOException e) {
		e.printStackTrace();
		System.exit(1);
		}
	 }
 
 
	 }

i have this now.it's counting 136 not 133 because i kno the number of words in my file...and how do i count vowels?

this is what i have

import java.io.*;
import java.util.regex.*;
 
public class FileIO {
	public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
		countWords();
	}
 
	public static void countWords() throws IOException {
		FileReader inputStream = null;
		FileWriter outputStream = null;
 
		String filename = "G:\\Java 1302\\project\\FILEIO\\src\\input.txt"; 
		String fileContents = "G:\\Java 1302\\project\\FILEIO\\src\\input.txt"; 
 
		try {
 
			inputStream = new FileReader(
					"G:\\Java 1302\\project\\FILEIO\\src\\input.txt");
			outputStream = new FileWriter(
					"G:\\Java 1302\\project\\FILEIO\\src\\ouput.txt");
 
			BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(inputStream);
			String lineRead = br.readLine();
 
			while (lineRead != null) {
				fileContents = fileContents + "\n" + lineRead;
				lineRead = br.readLine();
				// count words and display the count
 
				String[] wordList = fileContents.split("[\\s\\n]");
				int size = wordList.length;
				// display on console word count
				System.out.println(" the total world count is "
						+ wordList.length);
				// print into new file
				outputStream.write(" the total world count is "
						+ wordList.length);
 
			}
		} finally {
			if (inputStream != null) {
				inputStream.close();
			}
			if (outputStream != null) {
				outputStream.close();
			}
		}
 
	}
 
}

Sound good!