A Java Program to take a text file, parse it and output information on the distribution of word lengths.
- Avoided the following characters , : ; ! ? Space
- Justification for this was that punctuation wouldn't count towards words (bar those symbols that acted as placeholder for words e.g. &). So only punctuation that could be used in number formatting is permitted.
- Average is rounded to the third decimal place
To create the jar from the maven source directory run the two following lines in succession.
mvn compile
mvn package
This should compile a jar called WordParser-1.0.jar in the target folder of the maven directory. You can then run the jar using the following line.
java -jar WordParser-1.0 "URL TO YOUR TXT FILE"
The result should output directly to the console you are calling the jar from.