How to implement word count if my file has hyphens?

Question

language Scala or Java

If I want count every word and their frequencey which appears in, for example, *.txt, however,if there is a hyphen , and the .txt reads:

hello everyone， I am Bill Ga-
tes

My aim is to print out each word and their frequency in the *.txt by using a Map[String，Int]
So how to deal with the word "Gates"?

I am a rookie in Scala and
The only method I know is sourse.getline() to read this file so
My output is not one "Gates" but two words.

How to read a hyphen "-" in a file and count one word , but not two?

Appreciate your help!
Scala will be better Java is also accepted thanks!

Answer 1

A hyphen represents two words, which if a word with hyphen is counted as two words, we can remove the number of hyphens from the final result.

Let's say you had this text:
Hello I am Ay-mane and I wa-nt to say some-thing.

We have 10 words. The 'count word' merhod will count 13, then we remove the number of hyphens to get 10.

Answer 2

Tinm jac you can follow these steps:
- read the whole file
- count then remove hyphens
- remove "\n" (they represent newline)

I'm sure there are methods to do that, you can use what Aleksandrs Kalinins suggested, it will he something like: string.replaceAll("-", ""), which will remove all your hyphens. Same goes for "\n". I think thay is the result you want, but I do not know scala so I can't write a functioning script (but I can probably help you in dms, then you share final solution here)

Answer 3

Well, in Java, before putting string into a map, you can call replaceAll method, to remove any characters you want. I bet this method exists in Scala also.

https://code.sololearn.com/cijFhzvfH35Z/?ref=app

Answer 4

But what if the file is very long? I cannot claim them and replaceAll them one by one 😂

Answer 5

Aymane's method is brilliant to count the total words
But what if I want more?😂😂
Each word and its frequency!
Maybe I ask for too much😂😂

Answer 6

My idea is convert all the content of this file into a huge String which can be printed in one line! so I can replace hyphen into "" and two words merge into one word
BUT HOW TO IMPLEMENT？That's hard for me😂😂😂😂