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reportBlankLines

Language/Type: Java file processing Scanner
Author: Marty Stepp

Write a method named reportBlankLines that accepts a Scanner containing an input file as a parameter and that outputs the line numbers of any blank lines and that reports the total number of blank lines in the file. For example, given the following input file: 

Remember that a file 
can have blank lines 
like the one below: 
 
A blank line: 
 
is read as a String 
of length 0 
 
by Scanner

Your method should print the following output: 

line 4 is blank 
line 6 is blank 
line 9 is blank 
total blank lines = 3

Notice that each blank line produces a line of output and that there is a final line of output reporting the total number of blank lines. Also notice that lines are numbered starting with 1 (the first line is line 1, the second line is line 2, and so on). If the input has no lines or no blank lines, output the following: 

total blank lines = 0
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This is a method problem. Write a Java method as described. Do not write a complete program or class; just the method(s) above.

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