>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.jspa?threadID=474733&messageID=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).
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
}
}
For more advanced work with strings check out the Stringbuffer api.
