Thread: Problem reading in the files

I have this piece of code that is suppose to read in a file and count how many lines it has, number of words, etc... but for some reason it is not reading this file in for some reason

http://faculty.utpa.edu/rtschweller/...dictionary.txt

I can put in other inputs and other words, as a matter of fact, I can put what I want and it will read the file properly and do everything i ask it to. I can even give it huge files that take my computer a while to compute and it will still work but once I give it this file, it will not read it at all. I can erase all of it's input and put something else in this file it will read it but I give it the input in the file it won't read it. I even cut this file in half a few times until i gave it a tiny input and it started reading it. I copied it over millions of times and it read it, I give it back this file's input again, it won't even attempt to read it.

Any suggestions?

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package dictionary;

import java.util.*;
import java.io.*;

/**
 *
 * @author Marlin
 */
public class Driver {

    public static void main(String [] args)
	{
		//open input and output files
		File input, output;
		input = new File("data.txt");
		output = new File("pigReport.txt");

		//create a report based on input file, written to output file
		createReport(input, output);
	}

	public static void createReport(File input, File output)
	{
		try
		{
			//create buffered reader and writer objects
			Scanner reader = new Scanner(input);
			BufferedWriter writer = new BufferedWriter( new FileWriter(output) );

			//declare some counter variables
			int linecount=0;
			int wordcount=0;
			int charcount=0;
			boolean workappropriate=true;

			//read each line from input file one by one...
			while( reader.hasNextLine() )
			{
				//increment line count
				linecount++;

				//get that line from the file
				String theline = reader.nextLine();

				//increment wordcount by number of words in line
				wordcount += countWords(theline);

				//increment char count by chars in line
				charcount += theline.length();

				//check for swear words
				if( theline.toLowerCase().contains("frack") )
					workappropriate = false;
			}

			//write statistics to output file
			writer.write("The report:\n");
			writer.write("Number of lines: " + linecount + "\n");
			writer.write("Number of words: " + wordcount + "\n");

			if( workappropriate )
				writer.write("This is ok for work");
			else
				writer.write("Only when boss is not looking...");

			writer.close();

		}
		catch(Exception e)
		{
			System.out.println("File problem...");
		}



	}

	//return number of words in s
	public static int countWords(String s)
	{
		String [] words;

		words = s.split(" ");

		return words.length;
	}
}

It compiles just fine and all but it won't read it in. It won't even throw the exception

It will read files in like it is supposed to. It is suppose to count the lines and words in the document but it doesn't matter what I give it, it works. I would of put the statement you put in cause I do like your tips alot norm but I ran through it step by step and for other entries, even if it is the same file, regardless if they are bigger or smaller or what not, will read in and count like it is suppose to but when I put in this dictionary that I linked in the orginal comment, it won't even try the loop, it just goes, immediately returns false and skips over the loop completely.

Well, at least you tried. I ask my professor the same thing and it just baffles him as much as it does you. I take it you never seen something quite like this? I swear it's crazy and people think I'm making it up but I'm like trust me, it's too stupid for me to make up

It opens up normally in any editor and I just tried a different name. Nothing. I tried this on another computer, still the same thing. I'm using netbeans if that helps. I also used different editors and nothing. I still get 0 for everything. I even restarted the system and still nothing

I'm using Eclipse and it works fine.

Where did you put the file and what did you call it?

Try creating a small data file with a few lines and see if that works.

I'm using netbeans like I said but I could try using eclipse, would that work? I have in the "My Documents" folder my netbeans folder where it then saves all my projects by default in the projects folder. My project "Dictionary" as I simply called it, is listed and when I open it, in the first page you see is where I dropped the file. It appears to read it in and its only with this text, which I need mind you, not trying to be rude, that it decides, nope, I'm not even going to try to read the file. I already tried to modify the file in different ways to see if there is a reason why it isn't doing anything. Different mods and editors don't do anything. I thought it was too big to read so I gave it another file and increased it's size and it read it just fine. I gave it a 100MB file to read in of useless text and it did read it. I even put in frack and it detected it in the text. SO I know it read all 4 millions lines of text. I don't change a thing other than I simply give it this dictionary, nothing. I tried changing the name, nothing

Can't say I know how to do that norm. What do you mean using the java command?