cursor position in text area

hi can anyone pls help me with this.....
I ve to get the character tat the mouse points to at the current position in textarea. im running the java code in netbeans.
The below code does the following
- using file chooser we select a txt file from the system.
- the txt file opens in the textarea.
- the total words in txt file is counted n displayed in a label.
now i want to get the character at the current mouse cursor position in the txt file tat is displayed on the textarea.

i ve attached my code....
but its not working as expected....i m not getting any error..but not able to get the position of the current cursor position.

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And are you going to abandon this thread just like you did with the earlier one?
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