Treemap and sort 10 most used words

Hey all! I'm really new to java i got some problems with my code.
I want to load a txt file and sort the 10 most used words in a descending order..

Code:

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

        File file = new File("hitchhikersguide.txt");


        Map<String, Integer> map = new TreeMap<>();

        Scanner scan = new Scanner(file).useDelimiter("[^a-zA-Z]+");

        while (scan.hasNext()) {
            String newWord = scan.next().toLowerCase();
            Integer number = new Integer(1);

            if (map.containsKey(newWord)) {
                number = map.get(newWord) + 1;
            }

            map.put(newWord, number);
        }

        Iterator it = map.entrySet().iterator();
        while (it.hasNext()) {
            Map.Entry pairs = (Map.Entry) it.next();
            System.out.println(pairs.getKey() + " = " + pairs.getValue());


        }

    }
}

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As it is right now, it sorts in alphabetical order.
Any tips on what I do wrong?

Thanks!

Read the API for TreeMap.
Specifically:
"The map is sorted according to the natural ordering of its keys"

What I did is defined a class called Counter that I use to count the occurrences of each word. I believe that the Integer class as a value in the map won't do it because Integer objects are immutable. I defined Counter to be Comparable so that it could easily be sorted by its count.

Here's the code:

Code:

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import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Collection;
import java.util.Collections;
import java.util.Scanner;
import java.util.TreeMap;

class Counter implements Comparable<Counter> {
        private String word;
        private Integer count;
        public Counter(String word) { this.word = word; count = 1; }
        public int getCount() { return count; }
        public void increment() { count++; }
        @Override
        public int compareTo(Counter that) {
                Integer thisCount = this.getCount();
                Integer thatCount = that.getCount();
                return thisCount.compareTo(thatCount);
        }
        public String toString() {
                return word + " " + count;
        }
}

public class MostCommonWords {
       
        public static void main(String[] args) throws FileNotFoundException {
               
                // setup local variables
        File file = new File("ChristmasCarol.txt");
        TreeMap<String, Counter> map = new TreeMap<String, Counter>();
        Scanner scan = new Scanner(file).useDelimiter("[^a-zA-Z]+");
 
        // put all of the words into a HashMap, counting the occurences of each word
        while (scan.hasNext()) {
            String newWord = scan.next().toLowerCase();
            if (map.containsKey(newWord)) {
                Counter counter = map.get(newWord);
                counter.increment();
            } else {
                    map.put(newWord, new Counter(newWord));
            }
        }
       
        // get the values from the map
        Collection<Counter> values = map.values();
       
        // sort the values by occurences instead of alphabetically
        ArrayList<Counter> list = new ArrayList<Counter>(values); // copy into an ArrayList so that the values can be sorted
        Collections.sort(list); // use Collections.sort() because it's easy
 
        // print out the 10 most common words from the whole file
        for (int i = list.size()-1; i >= list.size()-11; i--) {
                Counter counter = list.get(i);
            System.out.println(counter);
        }
 
    }
}

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Quote:

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I believe that the Integer class as a value in the map won't do it because Integer objects are immutable.

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I don't think the immutability of Integer is a big problem. Analogously ordinary numbers are immutable in the same way: I mean 42 is always 42, it won't ever change its value. But if I'm counting eggs or something and find I have 3 1/2 dozen then 42 will do as a perfectly good counter value. As I count, each time I encounter a new egg I throw away the old (immutable) natural number I was using as the value and replace it with another (immutable) natural number that's one bigger. The OP's original code did much the same thing with Integer instances.

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A little point, but since we've established that the SortedMap implementations sort on key rather than on value there doesn't seem much point in sticking with TreeMap. There might be some *other* reason why alphabetical listings could be needed, of course, but none have been given here.

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Another way would be to use a <String,Integer> map as the OP has, and sort the map entries rather than the values (where an "entry" is a key/value pair). I haven't done this but the collections framework seems to include the relevant pieces: (1) a way of obtaining the set of entries (2) a way of constructing a list from the set and (3) A way of sorting the list (by supplying a Comparator based on the fact that Integer is comparable).

Thx for the help! I kept reading on some forums and it helped me on solution.

Code:

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

        File file = new File("hitchhikersguide.txt");

        Map<String, Integer> map = new TreeMap<>();
        ValueComparator comp = new ValueComparator(map);
        TreeMap<String, Integer> sorted_map = new TreeMap<String, Integer>(comp);

        Scanner sc = new Scanner(file).useDelimiter("[^a-zA-Z]+");
       
        while (sc.hasNext()) {
            String newWord = sc.next().toLowerCase(); r
            Integer number = new Integer(1);

            if (map.containsKey(newWord)) {
                number = map.get(newWord) + 1;
            }

            map.put(newWord, number);
        }


        sorted_map.putAll(map);

        Iterator< Map.Entry< String, Integer>> it = sorted_map.entrySet().iterator();

        for (int i = 0; i <= 10; i++) {
            Map.Entry< String, Integer> resultat = it.next();
            System.out.println("results: " + resultat.getKey() + " = " + resultat.getValue()); 
        }








    }
}

class ValueComparator implements Comparator<String> {
    Map<String, Integer> base;                       

    public ValueComparator(Map<String, Integer> base) {
        this.base = base;
    }

    @Override
    public int compare(String a, String b) {
        if (base.get(a) >= base.get(b)) {
            return -1;
        } else {
            return 1;
        }
    }
}

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