Thread: counting number of paragraphs in a text

How do I count the number of paragraphs using a separate method?
Thank you!


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

public class WordStats1 {

public static void main(String[] args) {
try {

Scanner input = new Scanner(new FileReader("data.txt"));

PrintWriter output = new PrintWriter(new FileOutputStream(
"newfile.txt"));

int lineNum = 0;
int wordCount = 1;
int charCount = 0;

while (input.hasNextLine()) {

String line;
line = input.nextLine();
lineNum++;
wordCount += getWords(line);
charCount += (line.length());


}

System.out.println(lineNum + " line(s)");
System.out.println(wordCount + " word(s)");
System.out.println(charCount + " character(s)");
input.close();
output.close();

System.out.print("File written.");

}

catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
System.out.println("There was an error opening one of the files.");
}
}

public static int getWords(String line) {
String str[] = line.split((" "));
int count = 0;
for (int i = 0; i < str.length; i++) {
if (str[i].length() > 0) {
count++;

}

}
return count;

}
}

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