Alright, taking a file called test.txt and reading it in to count the words and spit back out into a differt txt file called counts that gives the single words used and how many times they are used each here si my code i have all the counting and word grabbing right i believe just i cant think of a way to leave out the repeated words in the file... package edu.uwec.cs.cs145.lab4; import java.io.*; public class WordCounter { public static void main(String[] args) { // The following code reads in the contents from a file // then counts all the words in the file taking into // account duplicates. String filename = "sample.txt"; // Relative pathname -- place in project directory String fileContents = ""; // String to hold the contents eventually // "Try" to open up the file with the given filename. // If an error occurs (like the file isn't found) then it // "throws an exception" and jumps to the catch section below. // Otherwise, if no errors occur, it completes all the code in the // try section and skips over the catch sections. try { // Open up the file // A FileReader can only read one char at a time FileReader fr = new FileReader(filename); // Wrap the FileReader in a BufferedReader // This allows us to read entire lines at a time // using br.readLine(), which returns the line as a String BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(fr); // Read in the entire contents of the file and place them into // the single string, fileContents. // Note that if there are no more lines in the file, then the // String returned by the readLine is == null // --------YOUR CODE HERE---------- String lineRead = br.readLine(); while(lineRead != null){ System.out.println(lineRead); fileContents = fileContents + "\n" + lineRead; lineRead = br.readLine(); } // Close the file after reading br.close(); } catch (FileNotFoundException e) { e.printStackTrace(); // Display the error System.exit(1); // Stop the program from running } catch (IOException e) { e.printStackTrace(); System.exit(1); } // Display the contents of the file string System.out.println(fileContents); // Count the distinct words in the fileContents String // First dump all the words into an array of strings // Note that the \\s will split on whitespace (space, tab, newline) String[] wordList = fileContents.split("\\s"); // The words array has been created for us by the split // and we need to know how many slots have been made in it int size = wordList.length; // Create two (parallel) arrays for counting the distinct words // Call these arrays words and counts. // --------YOUR CODE HERE---------- String [] words; int [] counts; words = new String [size]; counts = new int [size]; // Go through each word in the word list and count it // // First see if the word is on the list of words you have already seen. // Note that when comparing Strings, you should not use (str1 == str2) // Instead you should use (str1.equals(str2)) // We will talk more about why in class soon. // // If it is not on the list then add it to the end and put in a count of 1 // on the counts list at the end as well. // Otherwise, increase the word's associated count by 1 // --------YOUR CODE HERE---------- for(int i = 0; i < size; i++){ words[i] = wordList[i]; for(int j = 0; j < size; j++){ if(words[i].equals (wordList[j])){ counts[i] = counts[i] +1; } } System.out.println(words[i] + " " + counts[i]); } // Write each distinct word and its associate count to a file // in the form // word1: count1 // word2: count2 // ... String outputFilename = "counts.txt"; try { FileWriter fw = new FileWriter(outputFilename); BufferedWriter bw = new BufferedWriter(fw); // Use bw.write to write to the file // --------YOUR CODE HERE---------- for(int i = 1; i < size; i++){ bw.write(words[i] + ":" + counts[i] + "\n"); } bw.close(); // Always remember to close the file } catch (IOException e) { e.printStackTrace(); System.exit(1); } } } the counts.txt file reads like this this:3 is:3 a:2 test:3 this:3 is:3 also:1 a:2 test:3 this:3 is:3 the:1 last:1 test:3 i just want the single words that are repeated not everyword telling me how many times it was repeated