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    Default BufferReader, histogram

    Hi, i have an assignment where i have to do a histogram, that is i receive a text and must count the times each word in the text appears. This method receives a BufferReader and a BufferWritter, what i did so far is transform the buffer reader into a string and i tried some things already, but couldnt find a solution, and i would like to know if u have some ideas to help me.

    	public static void histogram( BufferedReader in, BufferedWriter out ) throws IOException{
     
     
    		String insert;
    		StringBuilder sb= new StringBuilder();
    		String [] word= new String [1000];
    		int [] counter = new int [1000];
    		int k;
     
    		while((insert=in.readLine())!=null){
    			sb.append(insert);
    			sb.append("\n");
    		}
    		insert = sb.toString();
     
    // this was my first try
    		k = 0;
    		for(int i =0; i<insert.length(); i ++){
    			if(Character.isLetter(insert.charAt(i)))
    				;
    			else{
    				for(k =0; k<words.length; k ++){
    					if(words [k] == insert.substring(begin , i))
    						counter[k]++;
    					if(words [k] == null)
    						words [k] = insert.substring(begin , i);
    				}
    			}
    		}
     
    //this one was the second
    		words = insert.split(" " , 1000);
    		k = 0;
    		for(int i =0; i<word.length; i++){
    			out.write(word[i] + ": " + Integer.toString(counter[i]));
    			out.newLine();
    		}
    	}

    There is somethings missing that i dont know how i can do, in the first try i tried to seperate the text in words while the "for" was running the string and counting how many equal words appear; in the second i tried to seperate the full string in words and then count, but in this case there were too many words to the array.

    Thank you for helping
    Last edited by Nhedro; February 22nd, 2012 at 08:21 AM.


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    Default Re: BufferReader, histogram

    there were too many words to the array.
    That's interesting that there were more than 1000 words?
    Can you explain the logic of your program? I don't see any comments that tell us what the code is trying to do.


    Try debugging your code by printing out the words that you separate from the String to see why there are so many of them.

    The code you have posted is missing some variable definitions. Where is palavras defined? What is it used for?

    Another way to get the words from a String is to use the Scanner class's next() method. Create a Scanner object with the String and use the next() method.

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    It was supposed to be words instead of palavras, when i do the insert.split() i dont define the length of words, and it gives an error of OutOfBonds,

    String [] word;
     
    words = insert.split(" " , 1000);

    with i separate the string whenever there is a " ", but sometimes apear ' " ' and it prints the string "The, for example, and the last String of the array is the rest of insert, containing a lot of words yet.


    And when i run without the spilt(), i get only the first word 1000 times. I forgot to say, i put 1000 as length, because it is given to me a max of 1000 diferent words.
    Last edited by Nhedro; February 22nd, 2012 at 08:34 AM.

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    Work on the problem of separating the words in a small test program by itself.
    Define a String with one of the lines from the file and then work out the logic for getting the words from the String. When it works for one String, change the String and try it again. When you are using the spit() method, Use the Arrays class's toString method to format the array for printing.

    Have you tried the Scanner class for getting the words from a String?

    How many different words are there in the file? Have you looked at using the ArrayList class?
    Another useful class for this project is the Map class.

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    Default Re: BufferReader, histogram

    i haven't tried none of those classes, but i will try to do has u say, work line by line, it may be much usefull. u are saying that if i use "the Arrays class's toString " i will get a word only?

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    the Arrays class's toString method formats the whole array.
    For testing you would want to change the array size.

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