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Print all the strings that match a given pattern from a file
Print all the strings that match a given pattern from a file


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import java.util.regex.*;
import java.io.*;

/**
 * Print all the strings that match a given pattern from a file.
 */
public class ReaderIter {
  public static void main(String[] argsthrows IOException {
    // The RE pattern
    Pattern patt = Pattern.compile("[A-Za-z][a-z]+");
    // A FileReader (see the I/O chapter)
    BufferedReader r = new BufferedReader(new FileReader("ReaderIter.java"));

    // For each line of input, try matching in it.
    String line;
    while ((line = r.readLine()) != null) {
      // For each match in the line, extract and print it.
      Matcher m = patt.matcher(line);
      while (m.find()) {
        // Simplest method:
        // System.out.println(m.group(0));

        // Get the starting position of the text
        int start = m.start(0);
        // Get ending position
        int end = m.end(0);
        // Print whatever matched.
        // Use CharacterIterator.substring(offset, end);
        System.out.println(line.substring(start, end));
      }
    }
  }
}


           
       
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