Java loading text file and doing stuff help

Question

Hello,
Can anyone help me with this, I just don't know where to start..
I need to create a java program which will load up a text file. The text file must be no bigger than 1000 characters (so somewhere there needs to be an exception I am guessing)
Once loaded, it needs to run some methods on the text file which each return a single statistical count, the methods need to count things like number of white space, number of vowels, frequency of each vowel (this would not need to return a single count but maybe update some sort of array?) , number of printable characters and number of consonants.
Any help would be very good.
Dean

Answer 1

Thanks for the help so far
But first things first, I should start at the
beginning.
I am thinking maybe start with something like from
the Sun tutorial for 'CopyCharacters.java'.
So we have the first part of the program that loads
up the txt file....
(I really would like to have GUI for this, but I
can worry about that once the actual program is
working
import java.io.FileReader;
import java.io.FileWriter;
import java.io.IOException;
public class CopyCharacters {
public static void main(String[] args) throws
IOException {
FileReader inputStream = null;
FileWriter outputStream = null;
try {
inputStream = new
FileReader("input_characters.txt");
Right, now its time to actually read what is in the
file and use some of the statements you have
suggested, can anyone help me get started with this?
Dean
public class DeanHomeworkAssignment {
public static void main(String args[]) {
//Put your code here
}There ya go, that should get you started.
Start by writing the code to open the file.
This isn't that difficult.