Counting words in a textfile

Question

Hello I am trying to make a program that counts the number of words in a textfile specified below - later i will make it so you can choose the textfile. When I try to compile this I get the errors:
java:23: char cannot be dereferenced
               if(inWord && character.isWhiteSpace(character))
^
java:29: char cannot be dereferenced
               else if(!inWord && character.isLetterOrDigit(character))
Please could someone tell how to get this working - I know its something to do with the format of the data, maybe I should change it to a string or something?
cheers anyone
import java.io.*;
public class NumberOfWords
     public static void main(String[] argStrings)
            final int EOF = -1;
            int count = 0;
            boolean inWord = false;
            FileReader file = new FileReader("TestFile.txt");
            for(int i = file.read(); i != EOF; i = file.read())
               char character = (char)i;
               if(inWord && character.isWhiteSpace(character))
                 // we've come to the end of a word, so count it
                 count++;
                 inWord = false;
               else if(!inWord && character.isLetterOrDigit(character))
                 // we've just started a word or number
                 inWord = true;
            if(inWord)  // count the last word in the file
               count++;
      System.out.println(count);
}

Answer 1

Hello again, I am making great progress as I now have a program where you can specify the file and it does the required function. I would like to modify it to count the number of words on each line. Please could I have some tips on how to do this.
cheers
*Write an application which displays the number of words on each
*line of a text file. Assume one space between words, and no spaces
*at the start and end of the lines. Test the application with a
*suitable input file.
import java.io.*;
import java.util.Scanner;
public class NumberOfWords
     public static void main(String[] argStrings)throws Exception
            final int EOF = -1;
            int count = 0;
            boolean inWord = false;
            System.out.println("Enter file for word counting");
            Scanner scan = new Scanner(System.in);
            String inputFile = scan.nextLine();
            FileReader file = new FileReader(inputFile);
            for(int i = file.read(); i != EOF; i = file.read())
               char myChar = (char)i;
               if(inWord && Character.isWhitespace(myChar))
                 // we've come to the end of a word, so count it
                 count++;
                 inWord = false;
               else if(!inWord && Character.isLetterOrDigit(myChar))
                 // we've just started a word or number
                 inWord = true;
            if(inWord)  // count the last word in the file
               count++;
       System.out.println();
       System.out.println("Number of words: " + count);
}