CODEWITHSUNDEEP
java
ceri Westcott
ceri Westcott

Reputation: 45

Counting words in text file?

Just would like to say this program has defeated me in almost everyway. What I need to do is input a .txt file which contains this

There should be 59 characters 13 words and 6 lines in this file.

dont know how to format that to 6 lines.

The program counts the lines but says there are 78 words in the text file, not 13. Which is 6*13 = 78.

How can I get it to only read the line once.. hence reading 13 words not 13*6. The program seems to be counting the words that many times. (comments are put in for guidance by the proffesor).

package inputoutput;

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

public class input {

public static void main(String[] args) throws FileNotFoundException {
    Scanner s = new Scanner(System.in);
    String name;
    int lineCount = 0;
    int wordCount = 0;


    System.out.println("Please type the file you want to read in: ");
    name = s.nextLine();



    // create a Scanner object to read the actual text file
    File input = new File("C:\\Users\\Ceri\\workspace1\\inputoutput\\src\\inputoutput\\" + name + ".txt");
    Scanner in = new Scanner(input);


    while (in.hasNextLine()){ // enter while loop if there is a complete line available

        // increase line counter variable
        lineCount++;


        // read in next line using Scanner object, inFile
        in.nextLine();

        // create another Scanner object in order to scan the line word by word
        Scanner word = new Scanner(input); 


        // use while loop to scan individual words, increase word counter
        while(word.hasNext()){
            // increase word counter
            wordCount++;    
            // Scanner move to next word
            word.next();
        }
        word.close();
        // count number of chars including space but not line break by using the length() method of the String class and increment character counter

    }

    in.close();
    System.out.print("Lines " + lineCount + " "+ "Words " +  wordCount);

}

Upvotes: 1

Views: 4417

Answers (3)

crAlexander
crAlexander

Reputation: 386

Ready and tested. 

public class input {

 public static void main(String[] args) throws FileNotFoundException {
   Scanner s = new Scanner(System.in);
   String name;
   int lineCount = 0;
    int wordCount = 0;


System.out.println("Please type the file you want to read in: ");
name = s.nextLine();



  // create a Scanner object to read the actual text file
File input = new File("C:\\Users\\Ceri\\workspace1\\inputoutput \\src\\inputoutput\\" + name + ".txt");
s.close();

//--------------------
   //Count how many lines
Scanner in = new Scanner(input);
while (in.hasNextLine()){ 

    // increase line counter variable
    ++lineCount;
    in.nextLine();
} 
in.close(); //Close [in] Scanner



//------------------------------    
 //Count how many words
Scanner word = new Scanner(input); 
while(word.hasNext()){

 // increase word counter variable
    ++wordCount;
    word.next();
}
 word.close(); //close [word] Scanner



System.out.print("Lines " + lineCount + " "+ "Words " +  wordCount);

 }//end of main Method


}//end of Class

Make a Comment [if] it doesn't work for you.

Upvotes: -1

vianna77
vianna77

Reputation: 505

In your code, you have the following:

// read in next line using Scanner object, inFile
in.nextLine();

// create another Scanner object in order to scan the line word by word
Scanner word = new Scanner(input);

instead of that, change to this:

// read in next line using Scanner object, inFile
String nextline = in.nextLine();

// create another Scanner object in order to scan the line word by
// word
Scanner word = new Scanner(nextline);

Upvotes: 2

frunkad
frunkad

Reputation: 2543

Check it out : How to use multiple Scanner objects on System.in?

What you shall do : take one line from first scanner then create a new Scanner with that line

String s = in.nextLine();
Scanner sc = new Scanner(s);

Now iterate in the same manner as you second loop

Upvotes: 1

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