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# of lines in a text file

May 8th, 2006

Hello,

I was wondering if there was a way to find how many lines there are in a text file, and if so can you find out how many lines in the text file start with a particular word (an identifier).

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Re: # of lines in a text file

May 8th, 2006

>I was wondering if there was a way to find how many lines there are in a text file...

http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jsp...sageID=2200710

However, speed might not be an issue here.

>so can you find out how many lines in the text file start with a particular word (an identifier).

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class indexTest
{
	public static void main (String args[])
	{
	String str = "This string will be searched";
	String find = "will";
 
	System.out.println (str.indexOf ('s'));  // find char, no offset
	System.out.println (str.lastIndexOf ('s', 4)); // find s, offset by 9
 
	System.out.println (str.indexOf (find)); // find the string find, no offset
	System.out.println (str.lastIndexOf(find)); // find the string find in str, no offset
	}
}
class indexTest
{
	public static void main (String args[])
	{
	String str = "This string will be searched";
	String find = "will";

	System.out.println (str.indexOf ('s'));  // find char, no offset
	System.out.println (str.lastIndexOf ('s', 4)); // find s, offset by 9

	System.out.println (str.indexOf (find)); // find the string find, no offset
	System.out.println (str.lastIndexOf(find)); // find the string find in str, no offset
	}
}