Thread: NEED HELP! ROOKIE JAVA USER

Hello,

I just started to work with java a few months ago. I am trying to write a program that reads a text file, counts the number of words, and the number of times each word is repeated. Can anyone post the code for a program that does this? Help would be greatly appreciated.

Hi Alex8 and welcome to JPF.

No one will write the code for you. What will happen if you post your code along with the problem you're having (include input, output and any exceptions/errors), you will get some helpful advice on how to proceed.

What you've written above already has three problems for you to work on.

Problem 1 - reads a text file
Problem 2 - counts the number of words
Problem 3 - and the number of times each word is repeated

Work on each problem as if they're the only problem. Join them together and you'll be well on your way. After a couple of months of Java you should be able to do at least the last two if not the File IO as well.

this is my attempt to open a file so far...I am completely lost


import

java.io.InputStreamReader;

import

java.io.BufferedReader;

import

java.util.ArrayList;

import

java.util.Scanner;

public

class WordCount2 {

public static void main(String[] args) {

// TODO Auto-generated method stub

//CountWords("Z:\\javamonkey.txt");

BufferedReader bufferedreader =

new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(System.in));

ArrayList<String> prepwords = CountWords(

"Z:\\javamonkey.txt");

System.

out.println(prepwords.size));

}

public static ArrayList<String> CountWords (String file){

Scanner in =

new Scanner(file).useDelimiter(" ");

ArrayList<String> sWordList =

new ArrayList<String>();

while(in.hasNext())

prepwords.add(in.next());

return prepwords;

}