Java program to read the content from a text file and count the number of words in the file

 

File handling is an important part of any application.Java has several methods for creating, reading, updating, and deleting files.

·         The File class from the java.io package, allows us to work with files.

 

A Java program to read the content from a text file and count the number of words in the file.

/*A program to read the content from a text file and count the number of words in the file*/

import java.io.BufferedReader;  import java.io.FileReader;                             public class CountWordFile               {                  public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception  {                      String line;                      int count = 0;                                            //Opens a file in read mode                      FileReader file = new FileReader("data.txt");                      BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(file);                                                //Gets each line till end of file is reached                      while((line = br.readLine()) != null) {                          //Splits each line into words                          String words[] = line.split(" ");                          //Counts each word                          count = count + words.length;   }                                System.out.println("Number of words present in given file: " + count);                                        br.close();               }             }