Question

Write a program that asks the user for the name of a file. The program should display the number of words that the file contains. The file to test your program on is attached to the assignment folder. It is called Lorem.txt.

Answer 1

import java.io.*;

import java.util.Scanner;

public class CountWordsInFile {

public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {

Scanner keyboard = new Scanner(System.in);

System.out.print("Enter file name: ");

String fileName = keyboard.next();

File file = new File(fileName);

try {

Scanner scan = new Scanner(file);

int count = 0;

while(scan.hasNext()) {

scan.next();

count += 1;

}

scan.close();

System.out.println("Number of words: "+count);

} catch (FileNotFoundException e) {

System.out.println("File " + file.getName() + " not present ");

System.exit(0);

}

}

}