Counting the number of blogs in a click

"The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he who, in the name of charity and good will, shepherds the weak through the valley of darkness, for he is truly his brother's keeper and the finder of lost children. - Ezekiel 25:17."

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Please find below a code snippet that will help you find how many blogs you have written so far.

What you have to do.

1. Go to the edit posts page in blogger and copy the whole list of blogs that is listed there.
2. Save it in a simple text file.
3. Find a Java IDE or any machine that has java installed.
4. copy the code below into the java file titled BlogCounter.java and set the file's location correctly in the code.
5. run it and you will be told how many blogs you have written so far.

/*
* Created on Feb 3, 2005
*
* Author: Rathish Balakrishnan
*/
package com.sap.cbs.test;

import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileReader;

public class BlogCounter {

public static void main(String[] args) {

String path = "C:/blogs.txt";
String magicSuffix = "View Delete";
try {
FileReader reader = new FileReader(new File(path));
BufferedReader bw = new BufferedReader(reader);
String line = null;
int noOfBlogs = 0;
while ((line = bw.readLine()) != null) {
if (line.endsWith(magicSuffix))
noOfBlogs++;
}
System.out.println("The number of blogs you have written so far : " + noOfBlogs);
} catch (Exception caught) {
System.out.println("Please make sure you have specified the correct file location");
}
} // end of method
} // end of class

Hope this helps.

PS: Just realized that the editor kills all tabs making my code look like my first CP1 program. More seriously, the tab between "View" and "Delete" in my "magicSuffix" variable is lost. Fear not, all you have to do is to copy it from the text file yourself and replace it in the variable.