Count letters in a file Learn programming Visual Basic (VB.net)



Lesson:

File Management


Exercise:

Count letters in a file


Objetive:

Create a program to count the amount of times that a certain character is inside a file (of any kind).

The file and the letter can be asked to the user or passed as parameters:

count example.txt a

It must display in screen the amount of letters found.

(you can choose any way to interact with the user, showing the proper help)


Code:

Imports System
Imports System.IO
Namespace ConsoleApplication1
    Class CountLetters
        Private Shared Sub Main()
            Dim debug As Boolean = True
            Console.Write("Name of file: ")
            Dim nameFile As String = Console.ReadLine()
            Console.Write("Letter for count: ")
            Dim letter As String = Console.ReadLine()
            Dim myfile As StreamReader
            myfile = File.OpenText(nameFile)
            Dim line As String
            Dim countLetter As Integer = 0

            Do
                line = myfile.ReadLine()

                If line IsNot Nothing Then

                    For i As Integer = 0 To line.Length - 1
                        If line.Substring(i, 1) = letter Then countLetter += 1
                    Next
                End If
            Loop While line IsNot Nothing

            myfile.Close()
            Console.WriteLine("Amount of letter: {0}", countLetter)
            If debug Then Console.ReadLine()
        End Sub
    End Class
End Namespace



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