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This question is answered on Chegg here ->http://www.chegg.com/homework-help/building-java-programs-a-back-to-basics-approach-2nd-edition-chapter-7-problem-17e-solution-9780136091813, but I need help figuring out these additional instructions. Which are...

1. You are to call the method vowelCount from main(), where you declare only, i.e. no

initialization, a 1-dimensional, int array reference that will receive the reference

RETurned by method vowelCount, to the 5 element array that it creates that contains

the counts of lower-case vowels found in a text disk file.

2. Your method is to accept one argument, a File object, by reference of course, which

is bound to a file name and RETurn a reference to a 1-dimensional array.

3. In main(), you are to solicit the file name from the User and verify that the file can be

opened for reading before the method vowelCount is called; you are to issue an error

message if the file cannot be opened for reading.

4. If the file can be opened, call the vowelCount method, then display the array

contents in the following format:

a e i o u

--- --- --- --- ---

23 49 26 45 25

5. As the text problem states, you are to count only lower-case vowels in the file. The

values shown in the display example above represent the vowel counts for the

supplied text file, vowelText.txt, which you can use to test your program.

Explanation / Answer

Explanation:

1. The method vowelCount takes the reference to file as argument and return a reference to a one dimension array.so, we are only declaring one dimensional array in main and not initializing it as our declared array will refer to the reference given by vowelCount method. This clarifies point 1 and 2.

2. It then reads that file and count number of vowels of each type.

3. Since the method is taking input file as argument so, we must check if that file exists and if we can read that file or not. If we can not read the input file, then we need to throw an error. This clarifies your point 3.

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