Counting the number of characters in a file
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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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