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    Angry Parsing a text file in java

    • Create a console application that reads text from a text file taken as a command line parameter and outputs the frequency (count) of the words that occur in the text file
    o For example, the command will be run as “java FreqCounter input.txt”, and the output should be of the form: <word>,count

    I tried it with the following code but the output comes as the first word of the text file and the count as 0. It repeats the same output for the complete file.

    The code is as follows:

    import java.io.*;
    class FreqCounter 
    {
    //Code only reads a file
       public static void main(String args[])
      {
          try{
        // Open the file that is the first 
        // command line parameter
        String nameOfFile = args[0]; 
        String sample="";
        String tokens[] = new String[1000];
        int count;
     
     
        FileInputStream fstream = new FileInputStream(nameOfFile);
        // Get the object of DataInputStream
        DataInputStream in = new DataInputStream(fstream);
            BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(in));
        String strLine;
        //Read File Line By Line
        while ((strLine = br.readLine()) != null)   {
            sample=""+strLine;
     
     
        }
     
           tokens = sample.split(" ");
     
        for (int i=0;i<=tokens.length;i++)
        {
            count=0;
            for(int j=i+1;j<=tokens.length;j++)
            {
              if (tokens[i]==tokens[j])
              {
                  count++;
            }
            System.out.println("Word: "+tokens[i]+","+count);
            }
     
        //Close the input stream
        in.close();
        }
    }
     
    catch (Exception e){//Catch exception if any
          System.err.println("Error: " + e.getMessage());
        }
      }
    }
    Last edited by Json; July 5th, 2010 at 02:57 AM. Reason: Please use the highlight tags


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    Default Re: Parsing a text file in java

    Edit: Think I missunderstood the question here, gonna work a bit on it later and work it out. Hope you manage to solve it but if not I'll be trying it in netbeans.

    Edit2: And very unmotivating to stumble across this on the net btw

    import java.io.*;
    class FileRead 
    {
       public static void main(String args[])
      {
          try{
        // Open the file that is the first 
        // command line parameter
        FileInputStream fstream = new FileInputStream("textfile.txt");
        // Get the object of DataInputStream
        DataInputStream in = new DataInputStream(fstream);
            BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(in));
        String strLine;
        //Read File Line By Line
        while ((strLine = br.readLine()) != null)   {
          // Print the content on the console
          System.out.println (strLine);
        }
        //Close the input stream
        in.close();
        }catch (Exception e){//Catch exception if any
          System.err.println("Error: " + e.getMessage());
        }
      }
    }

    At least try to make your own one? Otherwise your prof better not have access to google.
    Last edited by Charlie; July 5th, 2010 at 06:40 AM.

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    Default Re: Parsing a text file in java

    To count the words, you'll need a way to save the words and associate them with a count. See the classes that implement the Map interface for a tool to do this.

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    Default Re: Parsing a text file in java

    Well Charlie the code that you have quoted is only for opening and reading a Java file that I have also used, now I need to modify it further to parse the file it reads

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    Yes I know, but only modifying text like that isnt very optimal since its frowned upon by faculty. You should really at least change the spacing in the code and/or swap some declarations/variable names or something. Just taking the first code you can google up can be very devastating for your grades I think.

    Anyways since you only need to read lines, Id say a bufferedreader and a fileinputstream should be enough. The readline command is very nice for this, but the datastreamreader or whatnot is something I've never personally used (I think its more about reading from one typ of input to another, and .txt is supported by most readers). Like Norm said you will want to save the value so that the reader knows it's handeled the line in specific, so it can move on. This should be done here

    ...
    while ((strLine = br.readLine()) != null)   {
          // Print the content on the console
          System.out.println (strLine);
        }
    ...

    And I dont know if it is (I mean, does it print the whole txt-file here? Because if it does, the problem is that your code is already "finished" with the .txt file).

    Basically just checking while br.readLine() != null would return a true value all the time, since the br is never really "done" with the line in question. But setting its value to a variable like strLine SHOULD make the bufferedReader think its finished here, and make it move on to the next line.

    Try to set the count++ around this part of the code, and see what happens.

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    Default Re: Parsing a text file in java

    I need to parse the file it reads
    Look at the Scanner and StringTokenizer classes for ways to parse/break up Strings into words.

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    Well i have re designed the code with the use of hash maps and String Tokenizer and its working fine now. Thank you all for your help

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    Default Re: Parsing a text file in java

    Glad you have solved your issue tccool. I have marked this thread as solved.

    In future, you can do this yourself from the 'Thread Tools' menu near the top of the thread.
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    Default Re: Parsing a text file in java

    CAN u post the code..i am trying to do exactly the same..parse..read and get some text data from txt filke

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    Default Re: Parsing a text file in java

    Quote Originally Posted by maliv View Post
    CAN u post the code..
    Boo hoo, that's not what a forum is for. Recommended reading:
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    Last edited by Darryl.Burke; November 16th, 2010 at 05:25 AM.

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    Default Re: Parsing a text file in java

    why? i just want to see and understand the code? what is the forum for? spending my time ???
    adios

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    Default Re: Parsing a text file in java

    Maybe this page from another forum's FAQ will help you understand the principles involved.
    Not A Code Mill at JavaRanch

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    Default Re: Parsing a text file in java

    Here's another page from the same FAQ
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    Default Re: Parsing a text file in java

    Quote Originally Posted by maliv View Post
    CAN u post the code..i am trying to do exactly the same..parse..read and get some text data from txt filke
    There are plenty of examples of this code here on the forums. Please try a Search or check out the 'Similar threads' section at the bottom this thread.

    Also look at our code snippets forum:

    Java Code Snippets and Tutorials - Java Programming Forums

    There is code there for reading a file.

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