Java Counting # of occurrences of a word in a string

Question

I have a large text file I am reading from and I need to find out how many times some words come up. For example, the word the. I\'m doing this line by line e

Answer 1

To get the number of occurrence of a specific word use the below code

     Pattern pattern = Pattern.compile("Thewordyouwant");
        Matcher matcher = pattern.matcher(string);
        int count = 0;
        while(matcher.find())
            count++;