xiaotu1990 0 Newbie Poster

i can get the class working, but how should i order the array by the highest
to lowest word count. is it possible to order it in alphabetical order if all it prints is multiple of Xs....

import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
import java.io.FileWriter;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.Writer;
import java.lang.reflect.Array;
import java.util.Scanner;

public class TranscriptAnalysis {
		private Word[] words = new Word[5000];
		private Scanner scan;
		private int largestIndexUsed;
		public TranscriptAnalysis(String filePath)
		{
			try {
				scan = new Scanner(new File(filePath));
			} catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
				e.printStackTrace();
			}
		}
				public void readFileToArray()
		{
			String temp;
			while(scan.hasNext())
			{
				temp = scan.next();
				temp = stripAndConvertString(temp);
				int index = this.isAlreadyInArray(temp);
				if(index != -1)
					words[index].incrementCount();
				else
				{
					words[largestIndexUsed] = new Word(temp);
					this.largestIndexUsed++;
				}
			}
		}		
		 * This method takes the String parameter, makes it lowercase
		 * and strips it of:
		 * periods, colons, apostrophes, open parrentheses, and close
		 * parentheses. Once stripped it returns it
		 * @param str
		 * @return
		 */
		private String stripAndConvertString(String str)
		{
			str=str.toLowerCase();
			str.trim();
			str.replace("." ,"");
			str.replace(";" ,"");
			str.replace("'" ,"");
			str.replace("(" ,"");
			str.replace(")" ,"");
			return str;
		}
		 * This method moves through the array checking each indexes 
		 * Word obejct to see if the word stored in the array is the word 
		 * we are checking to see if it exists.  If you find a match return
		 * the index of the word; if you don't find a match return -1.
		 * @param str The word we are checking to see if it exists
		 * @return the index of the word if found; -1 if not.
		 */
		private int isAlreadyInArray(String str)
		{
			{for(int x=0;x<largestIndexUsed;x++)
			{String word=words[x].getWord();
			if(word.equals(str))
				return x;
			}
			return -1;
			}
		}
		public void writeArrayToFile(String path)
		{
			try {FileWriter Writer= new FileWriter(path);
			for(int x=0;x<largestIndexUsed;x++)
				Writer.write(words[x].toString()+"\n");
			Writer.close();
			}catch(IOException e){
				System.out.println("File path is incorrect");
			
			}
			
		}
		
		 * This method orders the array by the highest 
		 * to lowest word count.
		 
		public void orderByFrequencyArray()
		{

		}
		public  void graphIt(){
	 		String temps;
	 		int temp;
	 		int offset;
	 		int longest = 0;
	 		for(int l = 0; l< this.largestIndexUsed; l++){
	 			temps = words[l].getWord();
	 			temp = words[l].getWord().length();
	 			if(longest<temp){
	 				longest = temp;
	 			}
	 		}
	 		
	 		for(int l = 0; l< this.largestIndexUsed; l++){
	 			temps = words[l].getWord();
	 			temp = temps.length();
	 			offset = longest - temp;
	 			System.out.print(temps);
	 			for(int lolers = 0; lolers<offset+3; lolers++){
	 					System.out.print(" ");
	 			}
	 			for(int xes = 0; xes<words[l].getCount(); xes++)
	 			{
	 					System.out.print("X");
	 			 		
	 			}
	 			System.out.println();
	 		}
	 		
	 	}
	 
		public Word[] getWords() {
			return words;
		}

		public int getLargestIndexUsed() {
			return largestIndexUsed;
		}

		

}

here is the word class

public class Word implements Comparable<Word>{
	private String word;
	private int count;
	
	public Word(String w)
	{
		this.word = w;
		count = 1;
	
	}
	
	public void incrementCount()
	{
		count++;
	}
	
	public int compareTo(Word w)
	{
		if(this.count > w.getCount())
			return -1;
		else if(this.count < w.getCount())
			return 1;
		else
			return 0;
	}
	
	public String toString()
	{
		return word + " :: " + count + "\n";
		
	}

	public String getWord() {
		return word;
	}

	public int getCount() {
		return count;
	}
}