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Counting one character at a time from a file

 
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I am trying to count and store the frequency each letter occurs form a .txt file . I am at the point where I can read back the file but I can not get any methods to work that would count the frequency of a letter in that file .


Simple ..no problems but here is some code that I think works in regard to counting the frequency but I am missing something to get it to function correctly ? Any ideas please let me know ! Thank you .



Again something where I think it would work but just do not see the error ?



So basically , I need to read a .txt file and print out that the character 'A' appeared x number of times .

Thank you again !
 
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G. Graz wrote:


That's a bad idea. The read method returns how many characters were actually read; it can be anywhere between 0 and letters.length. If it is less than letters.length, the remainder will contain the characters that were already in the array before the call to read (in this case '\0'). You'd better use the return of br.read(letters).

As for your problem, usually when counting occurrences a Map is used:

 
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The standard idiom would be a loop like this:


Just to confuse you :-) , note that counting characters gets harder if the text can contain the full range of Unicode characters.
 
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