countwords

package ar223ni_assign4;

import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
import java.io.FileReader;
import java.util.Scanner;

public class CountingWords {
    public static void main(String[] args) throws FileNotFoundException {
        //Add all my scanners and the filepaths
        Scanner sc = new Scanner(System.in);
        File testFile = new File("C:\\Users\\Greattech\\Downloads\\lovecraft.txt");
        FileReader fileReader = new FileReader("C:\\Users\\Greattech\\Downloads\\lovecraft.txt");
        Scanner readFile = new Scanner(fileReader);
        String currentRow = "";
        int totalWords = 0;
        String words[] = null;
        boolean skipLine = false;


        while (readFile.hasNextLine()) {
            currentRow = readFile.nextLine();
            //Use regex to remove empty lines
            currentRow = currentRow.replaceAll("(?m)^[ \t]*\r?\n", "");
            //Use regex to tell what seperats words and throw them onto a empty array.
            words = currentRow.split("[ ]");
            //Take the total amout of words and add the size of the array to it! for the total amout of words
            totalWords = totalWords + words.length;
        }
        System.out.println("Number of words: " + totalWords);


    }
}