Count Number Of Occurrences Of A Word In A Text File In Java

By Shubham Kumar

In this tutorial, we are going to figure out how many times a word is repeated in the text file using a map interface method through a Java program. If you don’t know how to count the number of occurrences of a word in a text file using a hash-map then you are at the right place to know your problem’s solution.

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How to Count Number Of Occurrences Of A Word In A Text File In Java

The first thing you need to do is grab a text file in which you have to perform the operation of counting the word occurrences example I have a file named “shubham.txt” in which I will be counting the occurrences of each word.

Suppose in “shubham.txt” the content is-

Hello my name is shubham kumar raj and, 
i am persuing my graduation from UPES Dehradun 
i am a final year student.

Map Interface in Java:-
The java.util.Map interface speaks to a mapping between a key and a value. Consequently, it acts somewhat unique in relation to the remainder of the gathering types. You can learn: Working with HashMap (Insertion, Deletion, Iteration) in Java

The following java code will help you to achieve your solution:-

import java.util.Map;
import java.util.Scanner;

public class CountEachWords
{
void CountWords(String filename, Map< String, Integer> words) throws FileNotFoundException
{
Scanner file=new Scanner (new File(filename));
while(file.hasNext()){
String word=file.next();
Integer count=words.get(word);
if(count!=null)
count++;
else
count=1;
words.put(word,count);
}
file.close();
}
public static void main(String[] args)
{
Map<String,Integer> words=new HashMap<String, Integer>();
CountWords("shubham.txt",words);
System.out.println(words);
}
}

The given below will be the output of the following code:-

Hello=1, my=2, name=1, is=1, shubham=1, kumar=1, raj=1, and=1, 
i=2, am=2, persuing=1, graduation=1, from=1, UPES=1, Dehradun=1,
a=1, final=1, year=1, student=1.

This is how we can count the number of occurrences of a word in a text (.txt) file in Java.

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