Hi Everyone,

I'm working on a project which has a dictionary of words and I'm extracting them and adding them to an ArrayList as word objects. I have a class called Word as below.

What I'm wondering is how do I access these word objects to update the frequency? As part of this project, I need to only have one unique word, and increase the frequency of that word by the number of occurrences in the dictionary.

Word(String word)
{
  this.word = word;
  this.freq = 0;
}

public String getWord() { 
    return word;
}

public int getFreq() {
   return freq;
}

public void setFreq() {
   freq = freq + 1;
}

This is how I am adding the word objects to the ArrayList...I think it's ok?

String pattern = "[^a-zA-Z\\s]";
        String strippedString = line.replaceAll(pattern, "");
        line = strippedString.toLowerCase();
        StringTokenizer st = new StringTokenizer(line);
        while (st.hasMoreTokens())
        {
            String newWord = st.nextToken();
            word.add(new Word(newWord));
            count++;
        }