Thread: word counter program

INSTRUCTIONS

1. Create a WordCounter class with a constructor that takes a file name as a parameter
2. The class should have two fields: one for the file name and one for a HashMap to store word count information
3. The constructor should call a private method, countWords, that reads in the file and counts the word frequencies
4. The class should contain a get method for each field, as well as a print method that prints out the map in the following format: word: frequency
5. When printing, the map should be sorted by either the word order or frequency (Hint: see Collections.sort)
6. You should include the sample text file on Blackboard

import java.io.File;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Collections;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.Scanner;
 
 
 
public class WordCounter 
{
	// 2 fields for file name and hashmap
	private ArrayList<String> fn,hm;
	private Scanner x;
 
	// constructor
	public WordCounter(String frame)
	{
		countwords();
 
	}
	// methods
	private void countwords ()
	{
		try{
			x = new Scanner (new File("test.file.txt"));
		System.out.println(Collections.frequency(fn, hm));
		}
		catch (Exception e){
			System.out.println("File not found");
		}
	}
	private void print() {
 
 
	}
	public static void main(String[] args) 
	{
		String fname = "test-file.txt";
		if (args.length > 0)
			fname = args[0];
 
		WordCounter wc = new WordCounter(fname);
		wc.print();
	}
 
 
}

I still need help with step 4 and 5. please help im still learning

The steps are not numbered. Which are 4 & 5?

Please be more specific describing your problems.

need help on the print method

What is the printed output supposed to look like? Where does the data that is to be printed come from?