Java tutorial
import java.io.BufferedReader; import java.io.FileReader; import java.io.IOException; import java.io.Reader; import java.io.StreamTokenizer; // The buffering makes the program more than 20 times faster. public class SumFile { public static void main(String[] a) throws IOException { sumfile("file.txt"); } static void sumfile(String filename) throws IOException { Reader r = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(filename)); StreamTokenizer stok = new StreamTokenizer(r); stok.parseNumbers(); double sum = 0; stok.nextToken(); while (stok.ttype != StreamTokenizer.TT_EOF) { if (stok.ttype == StreamTokenizer.TT_NUMBER) sum += stok.nval; else System.out.println("Nonnumber: " + stok.sval); stok.nextToken(); } System.out.println("The file sum is " + sum); } }