diff --git a/FileWriter.class b/FileWriter.class
index ac3d5fd..067a202 100644
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diff --git a/FileWriter.java b/FileWriter.java
index e788429..7f0f167 100644
--- a/FileWriter.java
+++ b/FileWriter.java
@@ -1,21 +1,28 @@
+import java.io.BufferedReader;
 import java.io.File;
 import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
+import java.io.FileReader;
+import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.PrintWriter;
 import java.util.Scanner;
 
 public class FileWriter {
-    public String fileToString (String fileName) throws FileNotFoundException
-    {
-        Scanner scanner = new Scanner( new File(fileName) );
+    public String fileToString(String fileName) throws FileNotFoundException {
+        Scanner scanner = new Scanner(new File(fileName));
         String myString = scanner.useDelimiter("\\A").next();
         scanner.close();
         return myString;
     }
 
-    public void stringToFile (String input, String fileName) throws FileNotFoundException
-    {
+    public void stringToFile(String input, String fileName) throws FileNotFoundException {
         PrintWriter out = new PrintWriter(fileName);
         out.print(input);
         out.close();
     }
+
+    public int countCharacters(String fileName) throws FileNotFoundException {
+
+        String file = fileToString(fileName);
+        return file.length();
+    }
 }
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diff --git a/FileWriterTester.class b/FileWriterTester.class
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diff --git a/FileWriterTester.java b/FileWriterTester.java
index b90e5c6..9c2f3be 100644
--- a/FileWriterTester.java
+++ b/FileWriterTester.java
@@ -1,11 +1,15 @@
 import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
+import java.io.IOException;
 
 public class FileWriterTester
 {
     public static void main (String [] args) throws FileNotFoundException
     {
         FileWriter myWriter = new FileWriter ();
+
         myWriter.stringToFile("Susmebit", "MyTextFile.txt");
         System.out.println(myWriter.fileToString ("MyTextFile.txt"));
+        System.out.println(myWriter.countCharacters("MyTextFile.txt"));
+        
     }
 }
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