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Thread: Fixing a program that reads a .txt file java beginner I need help ASAP

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    Default Fixing a program that reads a .txt file java beginner I need help ASAP

    I wrote a program to read a .txt file and return how many times a, e, s, and t occur in the .txt file. I am getting an error that I do not know how to fix. It says Error: FileNotFoundException cannot be resolved to a type
    Any help would be appreciated

    import java.util.Scanner;
    import java.io.File;
    import java.io.IOException;
    import java.io.BufferedReader;

    public class Count
    {
    public static void main (String[] args) throws FileNotFoundException {

    String phrase; // a string of characters
    int countBlank; // the number of blanks (spaces) in the phrase
    int length; // the length of the phrase
    char ch; // an individual character in the string
    int countA;
    int countE;
    int countS;
    int countT;

    java.io.File file = new java.io.File("counting.txt");
    Scanner inFile = new Scanner (file);

    Scanner scan = new Scanner(System.in);

    phrase = scan.nextLine();
    length = phrase.length();

    // Initialize counts

    while (true)
    {
    if (phrase.equalsIgnoreCase("quit"))

    break;

    else
    {

    countBlank = 0;
    countA = 0;
    countE = 0;
    countS = 0;
    countT = 0;

    for ( int i = 0; i < length; i++ )
    {
    if ( phrase.charAt( i ) == ' ' )

    countBlank++;
    ch = phrase.charAt(i);

    switch (ch)
    {
    case 'a':
    case 'A': countA++;
    break;
    case 'e':
    case 'E': countE++;
    break;
    case 's':
    case 'S': countS++;
    break;
    case 't':
    case 'T': countT++;
    break;
    }

    }

    System.out.println ();
    System.out.println ("Number of blank spaces: " + countBlank);
    System.out.println ();

    System.out.println ("Number of A's: " + countA);
    System.out.println ();
    System.out.println ("Number of E's: " + countE);
    System.out.println ();
    System.out.println ("Number of S's: " + countS);
    System.out.println ();
    System.out.println ("Number of T's: " + countT);
    break;

    }
    }


    }
    }


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    Default Re: Fixing a program that reads a .txt file java beginner I need help ASAP

    Please read this topic to learn how to post code in code or highlight tags and other useful info for newcomers. After learning about tags, please edit your post so that your code is readable.

    The FileNotFoundException must be imported just as you've imported other classes.

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