try {

            br = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(f));
            String line;
            while ((line = br.readLine()) != null) {

                lines++;
                chars += System.getProperty("line.separator").length();
                chars += line.length();
                words += line.split(" ").length;

            }

            System.out.println(lines + " " + words + " " + chars);