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Develop an application that counts the number of words, number of characters with spaces and without spaced. The program should display the text file statistics as follows:

File Name: sample.txt
Number of Words: 124
Number of characters without spaces: 1045
Number of characters with spaces: 1200

The application shall be a counsel compatible application-(needs a GUI)
here's what I have so far...
i'm missing both character counters and am not sure how to get files in my gui
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import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import javax.swing.*;
import java.io.*;
import java.util.*;

//////////////////////////////////////////////////////// CountWords
public class CountWords extends JFrame {

//====================================================== fields
JTextField _fileNameTF = new JTextField(15);
JTextField _wordCountTF = new JTextField(4);
JFileChooser _fileChooser = new JFileChooser();

//================================================= constructor
CountWords() {
//... Create / set component characteristics.
_fileNameTF.setEditable(false);
_wordCountTF.setEditable(false);

//... Add listeners

//... Create content pane, layout components
JPanel content = new JPanel();
content.setLayout(new FlowLayout());
content.add(new JLabel("File:"));
content.add(_fileNameTF);
content.add(new JLabel("Word Count:"));
content.add(_wordCountTF);

//... Create menu elements (menubar, menu, menu item)
JMenuBar menubar = new JMenuBar();
JMenu fileMenu = new JMenu("File");
JMenuItem openItem = new JMenuItem("Open...");
openItem.addActionListener(new OpenAction());

//... Assemble the menu
menubar.add(fileMenu);
fileMenu.add(openItem);

//... Set window characteristics
this.setJMenuBar(menubar);
this.setContentPane(content);
this.setTitle("Count Words");
this.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
this.pack(); // Layout components.
this.setLocationRelativeTo(null); // Center window.
}

//============================================= countWordsInFile
private int countWordsInFile(File f) {

int numberOfWords = 0; // Count of words.

try {
Scanner in = new Scanner(f);

while (in.hasNext()) {
String word = in.next(); // Read a "token".
numberOfWords++;
}
in.close(); // Close Scanner's file.

} catch (FileNotFoundException fnfex) {
// ... We just got the file from the JFileChooser,
// so it's hard to believe there's problem, but...
JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(CountWords.this,
fnfex.getMessage());
}
return numberOfWords;
}

///////////////////////////////////////////////////// OpenAction
class OpenAction implements ActionListener {
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent ae) {
//... Open a file dialog.
int retval = _fileChooser.showOpenDialog(CountWords.this);
if (retval == JFileChooser.APPROVE_OPTION) {
//... The user selected a file, get it, use it.
File file = _fileChooser.getSelectedFile();

//... Update user interface.
_fileNameTF.setText(file.getName());
_wordCountTF.setText("" + countWordsInFile(file));
}
}
}

//========================================================= main
public static void main(String[] args) {
JFrame window = new CountWords();
window.setVisible(true);
}
}.

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