Count letters with BufferedReader - Java File Path IO

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Description

Count letters with BufferedReader

Demo Code

import java.io.*;
import java.nio.file.*;

public class CountLetter {
    private char lookFor;
    private Path file;

    CountLetter(char lookFor, Path file) {
        this.lookFor = lookFor;
        this.file = file;
    }// w w w  .  ja v a2s.  co  m

    public int count() throws IOException {
        int count = 0;
        try (InputStream in = Files.newInputStream(file);
                BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(
                        new InputStreamReader(in))) {
            String line = null;
            while ((line = reader.readLine()) != null) {
                for (int i = 0; i < line.length(); i++) {
                    if (lookFor == line.charAt(i)) {
                        count++;
                    }
                }
            }
        } catch (IOException x) {
            System.err.println(x);
        }
        return count;
    }

    static void usage() {
        System.out.println("usage: java CountLetter <letter>");
        System.exit(-1);
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {

        if (args.length != 1 || args[0].length() != 1)
            usage();

        char lookFor = args[0].charAt(0);
        Path file = Paths.get("xanadu.txt");
        int count = new CountLetter(lookFor, file).count();
        System.out.format("File '%s' has %d instances of letter '%c'.%n",
                file, count, lookFor);
    }
}

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