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reading a part of a txt file

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reading a part of a txt file

Dec 9th, 2008

I have a tab delimilated txt file. how can i read only the second part of the file. ex

10.0.0.0 hostname date

i want to read in the hostname only

what function can i use to do this?

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Re: reading a part of a txt file

Dec 9th, 2008

You can use a Scanner or the String.split() function.

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Re: reading a part of a txt file

Dec 9th, 2008

String.split(" ") doesnt work. what would the syntax for the tab deliminater be?

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Re: reading a part of a txt file

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"\t" is the tab character.

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Re: reading a part of a txt file

Dec 9th, 2008

it works with 1 part, but when i put it into an arraylist, it wont compile

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for (int i = 0; i<FileList.size(); i++)
        { 
 
            System.out.println(FileList.get(i).split("\t"));
        }
for (int i = 0; i<FileList.size(); i++)
        { 
            
            System.out.println(FileList.get(i).split("\t"));
        }