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Thread: finding the amt of words and chars in a give file

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    Default finding the amt of words and chars in a give file

    So my code compiles fine, but I get a run-time error
    Exception in thread "main" java.util.NoSuchElementException
    at java.util.StringTokenizer.nextToken(StringTokenize r.java:332)
    at Hw13.main(Hw13.java:36)
    import java.util.*;
    import java.io.*;
     
    class Main
    {
    public static void main ( String [] args ) throws Exception
       {
          Scanner kb = new Scanner ( System.in );
          System.out.print("Filename? ");
          String filename = kb.nextLine();
     
          Scanner sc = new Scanner ( new File ( filename ));
     
          StringTokenizer strTokenizer = new StringTokenizer(filename,".");
     
          int chars = 0;
          int words = 0;
          int charA = 0;
          int the = 0;
     
          while ( sc.hasNext())
          {
             String s = sc.next();
             words++;
          }
     
          while ( strTokenizer.hasMoreTokens())
          {
             if ( strTokenizer.nextToken().equalsIgnoreCase("the")) the++;
             if ( strTokenizer.nextToken().equalsIgnoreCase("a") ||
                  strTokenizer.nextToken().equalsIgnoreCase("an")) charA++;
             strTokenizer.nextToken(); chars++;
          }
          System.out.println("chars " + chars);
          System.out.println("words " + words);
     
       }
      }
    What's wrong with my code?


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    Default Re: finding the amt of words and chars in a give file

    Each time around the loop you read multiple tokens (3 or 4). If you only have 1 token it is read by the first if statement. Then there are no more tokens and when the second if statement tries to read a token the exception is thrown. Perhaps you should only read 1 token each time around the loop and store it in a variable.
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    Default Re: finding the amt of words and chars in a give file

    how would i go about putting the strings read into an array?

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    Default Re: finding the amt of words and chars in a give file

    Simple. Read a String, insert into array. Rinse and repeat.
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    Default Re: finding the amt of words and chars in a give file

    Ok I've redone the code but I have another issue. How do I read more than one line?
    import java.io.*;
    import java.util.*;
    import java.util.StringTokenizer;
     
    class Main
    {
       public static void main ( String [] args ) throws Exception
       {
          Scanner kb = new Scanner ( System.in );
          System.out.print("Filename? ");
          String filename = kb.nextLine();
     
          Scanner sc = new Scanner ( new File ( filename ));
     
          int chars = 0;
          int words = 0;
          int charA = 0;
          int the = 0;
          String str = sc.nextLine();  
          StringTokenizer strTokenizer = new StringTokenizer (str," ,.");
          while ( strTokenizer.hasMoreTokens())
          {
             String s = strTokenizer.nextToken();
             if ( s.equalsIgnoreCase("the")) the++;
             if ( s.equalsIgnoreCase("a") || s.equalsIgnoreCase("an")) charA++;
             words++;
             chars+=s.length();
             System.out.println(s);
          }
     
          System.out.println("chars " + chars);
          System.out.println("words " + words);
          System.out.printf("average word length %3.2f\n",(1.0*chars/words));
          System.out.printf("a/an  %2d frequency %4.3f\n", charA,(1.0*charA/words));
          System.out.printf("the   %2d frequency %4.3f", the, (1.0*the/words));
     
       }
    }

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    Default Re: finding the amt of words and chars in a give file

    Depends upon what you are trying to do. One option:

    var1 = read line
    var2 = read line
    do stuff with var1 and var2
    repeat if needed.

    Note that you are going to run into problems if the amount of input is odd.
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