Counting the number of characters in a file

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Published on 2010-03-31T01:18:15Z Indexed on 2010/03/31 1:23 UTC
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I'm writing a program that for one part asks for the program to print how many characters (including whitespaces) are in a file. The code I have right now though returns 0 every time though and I'm not sure why it isn't counting the characters.

public int getcharCount(Scanner textFile) {

        int count = 0;

        while(textFile.hasNext()) {
            String line = textFile.nextLine();
            for(int i=0; i < line.length(); i++)
                count++;
        }   
        return count;

    }

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