Counting words in a textArea

Help !!
I am trying to count the number of words contained in a text area - Is it possible to do this ?
I am new to Java and I'm stuck because I only know how to write programs that use FileReader to count the number of words in a file.
Is it possible to count the number of words in a string directly - or will I have to save the string to file and then apply another program to count the number of words ?

You inser this code in your source file (TextArea1 is the name of the TextArea, whose you want to count words)
String texte=TextArea1.getText();
String rt=String.valueOf((char)13) + String.valueOf((char)10);
StringTokenizer mots=new StringTokenizer(texte," ,.:;!?\t"+rt);
int nbremots=mots.countTokens();
and you place at the header of the file
import java.util.StringTokenizer;
nbremots is the number of words The delimitors between words are noticed in the second argument of the constructor of class StringTokenizer. I have choosen the main signes of punctuation like space, coma,stop... the String rt
symbolise return on Windows. If you work on Unix prefer this code
String texte=TextArea1.getText();
StringTokenizer mots=new StringTokenizer(texte," ,.:;!?\t\n");
int nbremots=mots.countTokens();
You can also with the class StringTokenizer read the words one by one with this type of boucle
while (mots.hasMoreTokens())
String mot=mots.nextToken();
mots.nextToken();
It is an useful class. See the API about this class StringTokenizer in the package java.util

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