Question

I am trying to write a Java program that reads an input file consisting of URLs, extracts tokens from these, and keeps track of how many times each token appears in the file. I’ve written the following code:

import java.io.*;
import java.net.*;

public class Main {

    static class Tokens
    {
        String name;
        int count;
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        String url_str,host;
        String htokens[];
        URL url;
        boolean found=false;
        Tokens t[];
        int i,j,k;

        try
        {
            File f=new File("urlfile.txt");
            FileReader fr=new FileReader(f);
            BufferedReader br=new BufferedReader(fr);

            while((url_str=br.readLine())!=null)
            {
                url=new URL(url_str);
                host=url.getHost();
                htokens=host.split("\\.|\\-|\\_|\\~|[0-9]");

                for(i=0;i<htokens.length;i++)
                {
                    if(!htokens[i].isEmpty()) 
                    {
                        for(j=0;j<t.length;j++)
                        {
                            if(htokens[i].equals(t[j].name))
                            {   t[j].count++;  found=true;    }
                        }
                        if(!found)
                        {
                            k=t.length;
                            t[k].name=htokens[i];
                            t[k].count=1;
                        }
                    }
                }

                System.out.println(t.length + "class tokens :");
                for(i=0;i<t.length;i++)
                {
                    System.out.println(
                            "name :"+t[i].name+" frequency :"+t[i].count);
                }
            }
            br.close();
            fr.close();
        }
        catch(Exception e)
        {
            System.out.println(e);
        }
    }
}

But when I run it, it says: variable t not initialized.. What should I do to set it right?

Answer 1

Arrays in Java are fixed length, so I think what you really want to do is use a List<Tokens>

e.g.

List<Tokens> t = new ArrayList<Tokens>();

and

t.add(new Tokens(...))

unless you know in advance the number of items you’ll have.