Building a file reading app

[Archestic]

Hi, I have been given the task to make a file reading program which will:

Take in a text file
Read it and display its contents
Do a quick word count
Do a vowel count

Im kind of new to java programming so any help will be appreciated. Either by code or ideas on how the code should be laid out.

Thanks

Arch

[r035198x]

Hi, I have been given the task to make a file reading program which will:

Take in a text file
Read it and display its contents
Do a quick word count
Do a vowel count

Im kind of new to java programming so any help will be appreciated. Either by code or ideas on how the code should be laid out.

Thanks

Arch

Start by getting the file and showing the ontents to the screen. You will need to use a combination of FileReader and BufferedReader classes for reading the file. Look them up and write some code then post it and we'll see if you need more help.

[r035198x]

Start by getting the file and showing the ontents to the screen. You will need to use a combination of FileReader and BufferedReader classes for reading the file. Look them up and write some code then post it and we'll see if you need more help.

If you are cleverly lazy you could just look at this

http://www.thescripts.com/forum/thread571143.html

[Archestic]

I have found some code which i think will read the text file. This was found on a website i think i might be able to modify this and use it in my code.

import java.io.*;
 
public class ReadFile{
    public static void main(String[] args){
        try {
 
            /*    Sets up a file reader to read the file passed on the command
                line one character at a time */
            FileReader input = new FileReader(args[0]);
 
            /* Filter FileReader through a Buffered read to read a line at a
               time */
            BufferedReader bufRead = new BufferedReader(input);
 
            String line;     // String that holds current file line
            int count = 0;    // Line number of count 
 
            // Read first line
            line = bufRead.readLine();
            count++;
 
            // Read through file one line at time. Print line # and line
            while (line != null){
                System.out.println(count+": "+line);
                line = bufRead.readLine();
                count++;
            }
 
            bufRead.close();
 
 
 
        }catch (IOException c){
            // If another exception is generated, print a stack trace
            c.printStackTrace();
        }
 
    }// end main
}

It will allow me to read a text file and it will display the results on screen :D

I have also bought a book which should hopefully help.

i might be posting back on here later though.

Thanks

Arch