How to count words in java

Question

I am looking for an algorithm, hint or any source code that can solve my following problem.

I have a folder it contains many text files. I read them and store all te

Answer 1

Like GregS said, use HashMap. I'm not posting any code, because I think this is a homework and I want to give to you the opportunity to create it on your own, but the outline is:

1. Open new document
2. For every word, look at your hashmap if it's already there. If it isn't, create a new key in HashMap with this word, and in that position add the new document (the filename). If it is, just add the filename of the document.

For example, if you have: DocA: Brown fox jump DocB: Fox jump dog

You would open DocA and traverse its contents. 'brown' is not in your hashmap, so you would add a new element with key 'brown' and value 'DocA'. The same with 'fox' and 'jump'. Then you would open DocB. 'fox' is already in your hashmap, so you would add to its value DocB, (the value would be 'DocA DocB'). Maybe using an ArrayList (in Java) would help.