Count the words in a sentence

countwords.java

    public static List wordCount(String fileName) {
        List list = new ArrayList();
        String input = fileName;
        int words = 0;
        int totalchar = 0;
        int lines = 0;
        int longestWord = 0;
        int shortestWord = 99999;
        try{
        //System.out.println("Reading from file: " + input);
        Scanner scan = new Scanner (new File(input));
        while(scan.hasNext()){
           String word = scan.next();
           for(int i = 0;i<word.length();i++){
               totalchar++;
           }
           if(word.length() > longestWord){
             longestWord = word.length();
             
           }
           if(word.length() < shortestWord){
             shortestWord = word.length();
             
           }
           
        words++;
          

        }
        scan.close();
        scan = new Scanner (new File(input));
        while(scan.hasNextLine()){
            String line = scan.nextLine();
           
                   
            
            lines++;
        }
            
     int printLongestWord = longestWord;
     int printShortestWord = shortestWord;
     int avg = totalchar/words;
     String avrg = Integer.toString(avg);
     //average = number words / total letters
     double average  = Double.parseDouble(avrg);
    System.out.println(words+" "+lines);
    list.add(words + " words");
    list.add(lines+ " lines in total");
    list.add(printLongestWord + " longest word");
    list.add(printShortestWord  + " smallest word");
    list.add(totalchar+ " char");
    list.add(average + " average word size");
    
 
    scan.close();
    }catch(IOException E){
    
   }return list;
}