Processing every word in a text file
Sometimes, you may need to make a word-based analysis of a text file, for example, for spell checking or statistics. This recipe shows how a file can be read word-by-word in Groovy.
Getting ready
For this recipe, you can create a new Groovy script file and download a large text file for testing purposes. The Project Gutenberg website has thousands of text files that can be used for text analysis, for example, William Shakespeare's Macbeth, available at http://www.gutenberg.net/cache/epub/2264/pg2264.txt.
How to do it...
We assume that the pg2264.txt file containing Shakespeare's masterpiece Macbeth has been downloaded, but any large text file will do for this example.
- Add the following code to the Groovy script: ...
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