Re: Extending the code

From:
IchBin <weconsul@ptd.net>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Wed, 03 Jan 2007 15:14:19 -0500
Message-ID:
<4_2cnYuyIYkFkwHYUSdV9g@ptd.net>
IchBin wrote:

Matt wrote:

I have the following code but i want to add a function which will allow
me to count the number of vowels in the text file. I was wondering if
anyone would be willing to give me some help with this


 [Snip CODE]

Here is a vowel method inserted in your code. That works. You can test
the rest like the length frequency.

[CODE]
import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileReader;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;

public class App
{
    // Create BufferedReader class instance
    public static InputStreamReader input = new
InputStreamReader(System.in);
    public static BufferedReader keyboardInput = new
BufferedReader(input);
    private static int numOfVouls = 0;

    public static void main(String[] args)
    {
        int[] lengths = new int[100]; // Runtime error if the file
contains a
        // word of more than 100 characters
        int longestWord = 0;
        for(int i = 0; i < lengths.length; i++)
        {
            lengths[i] = 0;
        }
        try {
            System.out.println("Enter the name of the file you wish to
read: ");
            String fileName = keyboardInput.readLine();
            FileReader file = new FileReader(new File("C:\\"
+fileName));
            BufferedReader myFile = new BufferedReader(file);
            int numWords = 0;
            int numChar= 0;
            String line;

            while ((line = myFile.readLine()) != null )
            {
                String[] words = line.split(" ");
                numWords = numWords + words.length;
                //
                // Get number of vowels
                vowelCount(line);

                for (int i = 0; i < words.length;i++)
                {
                    numChar = numChar + words[i].length();
                    if(words[i].length() > longestWord)
                    {
                        longestWord = words[i].length();
                    }
                    lengths[words[i].length()] =
lengths[words[i].length()] + 1;
                }
            }
            System.out.println("\nThere are " + numWords + " words in
the text file");
            System.out.println("\nThere are " + numOfVouls + " vowels in
the text file");
            System.out.println("\nThere are " + numChar + " characters
in the text file");
            System.out.println("\nThere length frequency of the words is
as follows:");
            System.out.println("\nLength : Frequency ");

            for(int i = 0; i <= longestWord; i++)
            {
                // Print frequencies only up to the longest word
                System.out.println(i + " :"+lengths[i]);
            }

            myFile.close();
        }
        catch(IOException iO)
        {
            iO.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
    public static void vowelCount(String target)
    {
        String key = "AEIOU";;
        target = target.toUpperCase();

        for (int i = 0; i < 5; i++)
        {
            int lastpos = 0;
            while (lastpos > -1)
            {
                lastpos = target.indexOf( key.charAt(i), lastpos);
                if (lastpos > -1)
                {
                    lastpos += 1;
                    numOfVouls += 1;
                }

            }

        }
    }
}
[/CODE]


Just wondering if the OP found this code to his needs?

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