Re: Extending the code

From:
IchBin <weconsul@ptd.net>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Mon, 01 Jan 2007 19:28:09 -0500
Message-ID:
<qW-dnUp2ideHOgTYUSdV9g@ptd.net>
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]

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