java - count characters, words and lines in file

Question

This should count number of lines, words and characters into file.

But it doesn't work. From output it shows only 0.

Code:

public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
    int ch;
    boolean prev = true;        
    //counters
    int charsCount = 0;
    int wordsCount = 0;
    int linesCount = 0;

    Scanner in = null;
    File selectedFile = null;
    JFileChooser chooser = new JFileChooser();
    // choose file 
    if (chooser.showOpenDialog(null) == JFileChooser.APPROVE_OPTION) {
        selectedFile = chooser.getSelectedFile();
        in = new Scanner(selectedFile);         
    }

    // count the characters of the file till the end
    while(in.hasNext()) {
        ch = in.next().charAt(0);
        if (ch != ' ') ++charsCount;
        if (!prev && ch == ' ') ++wordsCount;
        // don't count if previous char is space
        if (ch == ' ') 
            prev = true;
        else 
            prev = false;

        if (ch == '
') ++linesCount;
    }

    //display the count of characters, words, and lines
    charsCount -= linesCount * 2;
    wordsCount += linesCount;
    System.out.println("# of chars: " + charsCount);
    System.out.println("# of words: " + wordsCount);
    System.out.println("# of lines: " + linesCount);

    in.close();
}

I can't understand what's going on. Any suggestions?

Answer 1

Different approach. Using strings to find line,word and character counts:

public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
        //counters
        int charsCount = 0;
        int wordsCount = 0;
        int linesCount = 0;

        Scanner in = null;
        File selectedFile = null;
        JFileChooser chooser = new JFileChooser();
        // choose file 
        if (chooser.showOpenDialog(null) == JFileChooser.APPROVE_OPTION) {
            selectedFile = chooser.getSelectedFile();
            in = new Scanner(selectedFile);
        }

        while (in.hasNext()) {
            String tmpStr = in.nextLine();
            if (!tmpStr.equalsIgnoreCase("")) {
                String replaceAll = tmpStr.replaceAll("\s+", "");
                charsCount += replaceAll.length();
                wordsCount += tmpStr.split(" ").length;
            }
            ++linesCount;
        }

        //display the count of characters, words, and lines
        System.out.println("# of chars: " + charsCount);
        System.out.println("# of words: " + wordsCount);
        System.out.println("# of lines: " + linesCount);

        in.close();
    }

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Note:
For other encoding styles use new Scanner(new File(selectedFile), "###"); in place of new Scanner(selectedFile);.

### is the Character set to needed. Refer this and wiki