Count the frequency of the word in a text file instead of a sentence.

[bMorgan]

Hi everyone. I want to count the frequency of word that appears in text file through hash table, but i only know how to count the frequency of different words in a sentence. The problem i have is through Filereader i can read the text file line by line, but because the same word appears in different sentences in the text file. How to add the frequency of the same word together?

The following is the code i use to calculate the frequency of different words in a sentence. Thank you.


import java.util.Hashtable;
import java.util.StringTokenizer;
import java.util.Enumeration;

public class Main{

public static void main(String[] args)
{

WordCount wc = new WordCount();
wc.processLine("da do ro ro ro, da do ro ro");
wc.print ();
}
}

import java.util.Hashtable;
import java.util.StringTokenizer;
import java.util.Enumeration;


public class WordCount
{
Hashtable ht;
public WordCount ()
{
ht = new Hashtable ();
}

public void processLine (String s)
{
StringTokenizer st = new StringTokenizer (s, " ,.");
while (st.hasMoreTokens()) {
String word = st.nextToken();
processWord (word.toLowerCase ());
}
}

public void processWord (String word)
{
if (ht.containsKey (word)) {
Integer i = (Integer) ht.get (word);
Integer j = new Integer (i.intValue() + 1);
ht.put(word, j);
}
else {
ht.put(word, new Integer (1));
}
}

public void print ()
{
Enumeration enum1 = ht.keys ();
while (enum1.hasMoreElements ()) {
String key = (String) enum1.nextElement ();
Integer value = (Integer) ht.get (key);
System.out.println ("{ " + key + ", " + value + " }");
}
}
}

[pbrockway2]

I see you create an instance of WordCount which contains a map (hashtable) used for counting, and then call processLine(). What does the processLine() method do? Specifically, what is the effect of processLine() on the map that stores the counts?

[bMorgan]

Thank you for replying. processLine() breaks the String into words and then passes each word to processWord. Thx.

[pbrockway2]

Yes. And when processLine() has done its stuff, what is the effect on your count map (the hashtable)?

When processLine() starts you have some counts and when it has finished those counts have been changed in some way. The intent of my question was for you to describe that change.