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1. The word break rule file    stackoverflow.com

IBM has apparently open-sourced their ICU source code for Unicode and Globalization support, part of which is a text boundary locator for detecting where breaks can be located in text. However, the ...

2. How to search a word in a html file without any java coding?    stackoverflow.com

I'm doing a project in Java which creates a user manual (html files that are linked together like Windows "Help and support centre") of software. Now once a user manual is ...

3. Find unique words in a file - java    stackoverflow.com

Using a msdos window i am piping in a amazon.txt file. I am trying to use the collections framework. Keep in mind i want to keep this as simple as possible. What i want ...

4. Why is using a period to separate words the convention for target names in an Ant build file?    stackoverflow.com

I never quite understood this, since the name attribute appears to support spaces, but every example uses the harder to read period to name targets. Why do this:

<target name="some.target.name">
<!-- target child nodes ...

5. Read a file after a specific word using java    stackoverflow.com

I have to read a file and write into another but after a specific word occurs something like hi. How can i do any help please.

6. Estimating the word count of a file without reading the full file    stackoverflow.com

I have a program to process very large files. Now I need to show a progress bar to show the progress of the processing. The program works on a word level, ...

7. Open a Password-Protected Word File in Java?    stackoverflow.com

How can I open a password-protected Microsoft word(.doc, .docx) file in Java, assuming that the password is known?

8. Splitting word file into multiple smaller word files using OLE Automation from java    stackoverflow.com

I have been using OLE automation from java to access methods for word. I managed to do the following using the OLE automation: Open word document template file. Mail merge the word document template ...

9. How can I efficiently read words from a 10 G file and put them in order of their frequency?    stackoverflow.com

I have to read words from a 10 G file and put them in a sorted manner of their frequency, how can I achieve this in most efficient way?





10. Counting repeated words in a file    stackoverflow.com

Goal: to find count of all words in a file. file contains 1000+ words My approach: use a HashMap() to store and count the number of times each word appears in the ...

11. Sorting all words in a file by length, in one read. (Java)    stackoverflow.com

The assignment, for my data structures class, is to find the shortest path from one word to another. i.e. Start: bleed -> blend -> blond -> End: blood, with a cost ...

12. Creating a Java Program to Search a File for a Specific Word    stackoverflow.com

I am just learning that language and was wondering what a more experience Java programmer would do in the following situation? I would like to create a java program that will search ...

13. Counting Words and Newlines In A File Using Java?    stackoverflow.com

I am writing a small java app which will scan a text file for any instances of particular word and need to have a feature whereby it can report that an ...

14. How to change colour of a certain word in an HTML file in a Java code?    stackoverflow.com

In the pre-existing code, the HTML file background colour has been set like this:

 file+="<table width=\"95%\" align=\"center\" style=\"background : #"+
            ...

15. check inputted string from a file contains of allowable words    stackoverflow.com

I'm starting to write a program here to check the inputted word/s by user whether correct or not then the program will have the capability to correct it from point to ...

16. how to search a specific word in java as well as static files in the existing applications    stackoverflow.com

I have a requirement to search a specific word in static files and as well in java files. Requirement is not only for the static word search and for dynamic word which ...





17. read microsoft word document in java    stackoverflow.com

is there a simple way of reading a microsoft word document in java without using Apache POI package? Or what are other alternative to achieving the same without using Apache POI package? ...

18. Using Java, how do I cause Word to open and edit a file?    stackoverflow.com

Possible Duplicate:
Open excel document in java
I have a button in my Java application that, when clicked, should cause Word to open a particular file. ...

19. To find similar words (strings) in two files    stackoverflow.com

I have to validate the similarity of word 1 in file 1 with word 2 in file 2 and so on. if word 1 (file 1).equals to word 2 (file 2), ...

20. Displaying top 10 most occuring words in a file in descending order    stackoverflow.com

i am trying to make the code more neat and efficient. iam trying to implement zamzela's[u will find one of the answers down] method. iam having trouble implementing the ...

21. Remove stop words in Java --- Help needed    stackoverflow.com

Im using a method to remove stop word defined in a file, that will rip off those words from the query string that i pass to this method... The code is ...

22. Convert Word Document to PDF using Java    stackoverflow.com

I want to convert ms word document to PDF file using POI.jar(read the MS word Content) and Itext.jar(Creat the PDF File). For Plain text in MS word, I am able to conver ...

23. extract words from file, then count frequency    stackoverflow.com

i m currently dealing with 20 txt files, the task is to count words frequency for each word, and then output the result into a single txt file... for example: word --"news" ...

24. Word count of a MSWord file    coderanch.com

25. Finding a word in a file    coderanch.com

Dear Friends, I have a problem . In my text file there is a word "Start" which normally will be present with in the 5th line of the file. My doubt is to how to find the word and append a String after the word "Start" and which type of File acess will be better. Regards, Pradeep

26. to search a word    coderanch.com

First you should use a StringBuffer and put the content of the file in it. Then with the method indexOf(String s) you can retrieve the position in the String where the word you are searching for is. Then you use the method insert(int i, String s) to insert your new line. Let's say you are searching for the word "Start", then... ...

27. Reading a Word document    coderanch.com

28. Help with Word Count on a file    coderanch.com

Welcome to JavaRanch, Chaney! Here's a quick example of reading in a text file (the name of which would be specified as a command line argument when starting the program) one line at a time.import java.io.BufferedReader ; import java.io.FileReader ; import java.io.IOException ; public class Foo { public static void main( String[] args ) throws IOException { BufferedReader br = new ...

29. download word document and rewrite it with updated data to same location    coderanch.com

hi, a word file stored in a server will be opened by clients on their IE. This word file is opened by firing a http request similar to http://ip of machine/contextName/folderName/filename.doc now i have a requirement where the person updates the word file and clicks save. The updated word file should now be there in the place of the old file. ...

30. Reading Word Document ?    coderanch.com

Hi, How to read the contents of word document and display it on the console. As i used Jakarta POI and imported the following packages : import org.apache.poi.hdf.extractor.WordDocument; import org.apache.poi.hdf.extractor.util.*; import org.apache.poi.hdf.extractor.data.*; import org.apache.poi.hdf.extractor.*; import org.apache.poi.poifs.filesystem.POIFSFileSystem; import org.apache.poi.poifs.filesystem.POIFSDocument; import org.apache.poi.poifs.filesystem.DocumentEntry; import org.apache.poi.poifs.filesystem.DocumentNode; But iam not able to proceed with my requirement as how to read and display Word Document ? Regards, ...

31. java to word document    coderanch.com

32. convert word to pdf    coderanch.com

Hello , I have a problem. I must convert a word file to a pdf , in a Unix server , but I don,t find a class that It do this change. I find programs that convert to a pdf but these programs runner with Windows. My question is: Exist a class in Java that It do this change , if ...

33. problem opening a new word file    coderanch.com

Hi All, I am just trying to read from one doc file and writing to another word doc file. this application runs file. But problem is that when i went to that directory and tries to open that new written word file it is not opening it showing error that some path problem taht is . Document name or path is ...

34. is it possible to read and write microsoft word files using JAVA I/O    coderanch.com

Hi , I want to read a .doc file from directory location and write it to new file with .doc extention. I am able to do taht with java I/O API . but problem is that when i tried to open new craeted file, word shows error that path name is invalid. I think file get curropted during writing process. in ...

35. convert word file to html    coderanch.com

Hai all, In my project I have to convert a MS word file to an html document. (.doc to .html). In MS WORD we have an option file->save as web page. I want the same thing to be done in my application using JAVA. Can anyone suggest me a solution for that? Thanx in advance. Regards, Venkatesh.

36. Modifying a Word Document    coderanch.com

Hi All, I have a situation where I have a word document that contains images, header,footer and text. I need to read the document and change the text inside it. For example: #email# should be replaced with abc@hotmail.com. I am able to replace if the number of characters are same (#email# is having 6 characters.) if replaced characters are less than ...

37. Getting number of same word count    coderanch.com

Here are some hints to get you started - you'll have to write the program yourself: Write a program that opens and reads the file line by line. You can use BufferedReader to read a file line by line. Break up each line into words (how you do that, depends on what your exact definition of a "word" is). Probably you ...

38. get the word by position    coderanch.com

Java on its own does not provide that type of capability. What you asking for is functionality of DBMS systems. You need to program yourself to read that row and columns. If you use Oracle, there is a feature called external files where in you can map a flat file as table. So you can query it as any other table. ...

39. reading the second word from a string    coderanch.com

Hi, I wanted to write a program where I can read the second word of every line in a file and sort out the lines based on the lexicographic comparison of the second word of each line in the file. Is there any method where I can read the second word in a given line? Regards, Ashwin.

40. Printing randomly chosen words from a file    coderanch.com

Hi, i've gotta problem with it. i tried to use BufferedReader and then StringTokenizer, and than use a loop that will run random times, but it didn't work how i expected. I want to read whole file and print out couple of randomly chosen words :\ i've just started programming in java, and feel a bit lost in all this, sorry ...

41. reading a word file through java    coderanch.com

Hi I m new to this site so it may be very late reply . But its better to revise anything .... This program will read the test.doc file & print the content on console . import java.io.*; public class FileReader { public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException { try { FileInputStream file = new FileInputStream("c:/test.doc"); int j; while ((j ...

42. word file not getting downloaded on Netscape6    coderanch.com

Hi, I am trying to download a word (.doc) file on server.I used the following two lines of code, response.setContentType("APPLICATION/OCTET-STREAM"); response.setHeader("Content-Disposition", "attachment; filename=\""+ filename + "\""); This works fine in IE but for netscape6 I get the file type as .jsp instead of getting .doc, and when I choose to download the file form the existing location it shows some irrelevant ...

43. Generate Word file    coderanch.com

hi chanoch well sorry for not posting links to things ive heard.... but if you have time to spend check the javaranch forum. i dont recall what forum it was neither do i remember who it was (which makes searching a little hard....) but in the post it was mentioned that there is bad (none at all) exception handling, no documentation ...

44. how to format word file in Internet explorer    coderanch.com

Hi All. All I want to do is that I want to open my uploaded word doc in browser on my jsp in IE. now i want that user should be able to format that word doc and save it through IE. And all other his data will also get saved. Is it possible to open word doc in IE through ...

45. Problem when reading a CSVs file as separate words - any help!!    coderanch.com

Hi, I have a text file with lines of comma separated values, for example as follows, Forrest Gump, Tom Hanks, Gary Sinise, Robert Zemeckis I'm able to write this data to a file with no problem, but when I try to read back the file using standard string calls, eg: readWord, it just reads in the separate commas, words and so ...

46. Matrix form of files and words    coderanch.com

hi I want to create a matrix form of files and words in each file i.e., like files as rows, words as columns. matrix [ file ][ word ] = (frequency of word in the file) Is there any logic to do this ? I tried to create with arrays and hashmaps... Any help would be highly appreciated.

48. Loading a word file    coderanch.com

49. Reading words from a file    coderanch.com

I need to read lines in a file word by word and spit it back out with something appended to it. I know I can use Scanner to read lines, but there is not Scanner method to parse strings from the line. Is it possible to Scan lines in a loop then parse the words from the line in another loop? ...

50. Adding data from a word document to a web page    coderanch.com

I was hoping to get some discussion going on how to take a word document, add to a database and then display the document on a web page with the formatting intact. I was thinking of creating a table with an image column and then display the image in a web page, but I'm not sure how to convert the word ...

51. How to find the ".java" file not ends with word "Process"    coderanch.com

How to find the ".java" file not ends with word "Process" For example If there are two files XyzProcess.java XyzHolder.java then the result should be XyzHolder.java I have tried using the regex "(?i).*?(^(Process))\\.java". But its not working as expected. Please suggest me what is wrong with it. Thanks in Advance Sankar K

52. Writing Word Files From Java    coderanch.com

Hello, Are there good solutions (mature or relatively stable) to write word documents from Java, say from a ByteArrayOutputStream? Apache's HWPF POI project sounds like it's in it's infancy. Also, I couldn't find any examples how to use it. OpenOffice has an API you could program to. Let OO output the word documents for you. Not sure how easy this might ...

53. Tokenize numbers only, skip words    coderanch.com

Hi there, does anybody know how should I tokenize only the numbers from the textfile and skip the words? I have two approaches: the first is using a token type switch case.. something like: while(s.nextToken() != StringTokenizer.TT_EOF) //30 July 2010 { switch (ttype) { case StringTokenizer.TT_WORD: System.out.println("Header and Title ignored"); //do not want it to be returned s.skip();// don't know how ...

54. Write word document    coderanch.com

I am searching API for writing word document. The way iText provides extensive functionality for writing into PDF, same i need for writing into word. But I am unable to find. I hv gone throgh Apache POI site, but i dont think it will serve my purpose. My requirement -> writing text, images, tables, image sizing, header/footer, font styling etc.. Please ...

55. Read from file and display nonduplicate words in ascending order.    coderanch.com

I am asked to write a program to read from a text file and display nonduplicate words in ascending order. The text file is passed as a command-line argument. Basically, I've managed to write a program to read a predefined String and display all nonduplicates. All is left to do is to read from a file. This is something I am ...

56. Java API for word files    coderanch.com

I'm pretty sure Docx4j can open and convert the old formats to the newer 2007 (2010?) formats. I haven't used this myself but making a POC for this shouldn't be too hard. If this is succesful you basicly have at that point, XML. Plenty of Java libraries around to handle (and search in) XML, and if needed, adding regexp searching to ...

57. Find the maximum occurence of words in a file    coderanch.com

I have to parse through a file and count the occurence of each word in the file. Then i have to display the words and number of count of those words within the file. I have to display only 10 words which have more occurences and display them in descending order. (Say the word with maximum occurence should be displayed first) ...

58. How to copy PDF/Ms Word file to another directory    coderanch.com

Hello, public boolean moveFile(String srcPath, String destPath, String fileName){ File file = new File(srcPath+fileName); File dir = new File(destPath); boolean success = file.renameTo(new File(dir, fileName)); if (!success) { System.out.println("File not moved ("+srcPath+fileName+")"); } return true; }//method This code moves the file whereas I am looking for copying the file. I mean the original file will remain on its place but its ...

59. printin word file    java-forums.org

i have class which prints file. But i have refilled cartridge which sends out empty cartridge error when i manually print so i can press ok and continue. Here while printing through this class it aborts printing and gives message printing failed. how can i ignore cartridge empty error? import javax.print.*; import javax.print.attribute.*; import javax.swing.JFrame; import javax.swing.JOptionPane; import javax.swing.UIManager; import java.io.*; ...

60. Counting specific word from a file    java-forums.org

hi... I have a text file containing " How are you? where are you? " Now i need to read this file and display how many "YOU" and "ARE" are there.I know to read and display the contents but not aware of counting the words?? can anybody please help. Thanks in advance.

62. Count same word from many file in directory    java-forums.org

Hi! i'm beginner in java programming. i need count same word from many files, example: doc1 : boys like to play football doc2 : girls play tennis doc3 : almost all boys and girls play tennis lets say my program read doc1 and first word is "boys", now my program will check if "boys" is also appeared in another document, if ...

63. About how to just print last 20 words from a input file    java-forums.org

I am a beginner for java. Now i have a question anyone would tell me how to write a code about how to print last 20 words from a input file? I was thinking about this like whole afternoon , but still cannot figure it out. SO i holp someone can help me. thx.

64. Counting occurence of a word in file    java-forums.org

import java.io.*; class lestal { public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception { FileReader fil = new FileReader("d:\\lab9_3.txt"); BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(fil); StreamTokenizer st = new StreamTokenizer(br); String SearchFor = "Java", word = ""; int input, counter = 0; while ((input = st.nextToken()) != StreamTokenizer.TT_EOF) { if ((input == StreamTokenizer.TT_WORD)) { word = st.sval; } if (word.compareTo(SearchFor) == 0) { ...

65. counting words within a file    java-forums.org

The problem I'm working on combines Unix and Java. I'm trying to create a Java program that can act exactly like the Unix command wc. I've already worked out counting the lines, and don't show that code here. What I need next is help figuring out why when I test my opW method, the answer is always 1. I've tried several ...

66. Opening a Word File    forums.oracle.com

Hey I got a question for a program that im programming im trying to program a button that opens a word File the moment u click on the button. Anychance any of u know how to realize this ? By opening the word file i actually mean that java just locates the file and opens it with the standaard program chosen ...

67. counting words in file    forums.oracle.com

68. calling a file and counting the number of words in it-please help!!    forums.oracle.com

StringTokenizer doesn't have any no-arg constructor. You have to create them with a String to be tokenized. Read the docs. That's what the error message is saying: it can't find any symbol (method names are symbols, as are a lot of other things) called "StringTokenizer" that references a constructor that doesn't take an argument.

69. changing the files word    forums.oracle.com

Actually my domain were using www.domainname.com/servlet/servletExample I edited the web.xml and removed the word /servlet and checked that despite aforementioned url now www.domainname.com/servletExample is better but I have to change the paths in whole java files. now the files are not 10/20 as there are hundreds of files. so plz help me to overcome this problem thanks & best regards

71. help for converting word file to html    forums.oracle.com

72. Downloading of file(Microsoft Word Document)    forums.oracle.com

73. Filtering words from a file    forums.oracle.com

74. Printing to a word file    forums.oracle.com

good morning everyone. I have come up with a simple java app that has a bunch of jtextfields. the program is about 95% done but to finish this i will need to print the what is in the textfields to a text file and append wome other stuff and make it look good. this is where my problem starts. i have ...

75. How to read word files using java    forums.oracle.com

76. Finding specific words in a file    forums.oracle.com

77. Count occurrences of two specific words in some files    forums.oracle.com

I was trying regex and I can get the number of times both occur in one single file. But I want to find cases when both occur together in a file. Can you also elaborate on "look for instances of the words in each line"? Also will regex help me in this case?

78. I want to find a particular word in a file    forums.oracle.com

79. How to extract unique words in all files    forums.oracle.com

My suggestion is; you need to use a debugger and understand what each line of code actually does. If you are new to java and need more help, I suggest using the "New to Java" forum. To be an advanced programmer, I suggest you need to be able to make your program compile.

80. remove words from file    forums.oracle.com

81. Reading a file to get words    forums.oracle.com

Thanks Eric, This solution works fine because we already know which word to retrieve ( third in this case )... But in the second part, I need to show to the user first how many words are there in the file and then he inputs one number. The word corresponding to that number should be retrieved then.....so in that case your ...

83. Word file conversion    forums.oracle.com

84. Creating word documents file from templates.    forums.oracle.com

Hi, I think I should go with Apache POI...but just want to check I have template and want to create word document only. In template I have something $date$ where I have to put current date. Any Idea how to proceed with it. I have written a code, but still it's not working # HWPFDocument doc = new HWPFDocument(new FileInputStream("C:\\temp pages.dot")); ...

85. Question: How to count words in an input file    forums.oracle.com

First tip: do not shove all your code into the main method. It will quickly become too large and unmanageable. Think about all the separate tasks you need ot do and see if placing these tasks in their own method will make things clearer. As for counting words, as the good prof said, you can use a Scanner on a String. ...

86. Embedding a file into a word document    forums.oracle.com

Thanks for replying. But none of the open source POI is not robust when it comes to creation or modification or embedding a file into a word document. I have tried using JACOB.But facing difficulty in getting the handler of the doc to embed an image or any file into the word doc. Any pointers on the same would be of ...

88. code for reading a table from a word file ?    forums.oracle.com

90. Opening a Word File    forums.oracle.com

91. How to create a Word File Using Java    forums.oracle.com

92. set header and footer in word file    forums.oracle.com

93. Searching for an entry in a file that contains 2 words or more...    forums.oracle.com

Story: One day, my dog, Jack, and I went out for a brisk walk, when all of a sudden, we ran into a rather efficient man. He always had everything he needed. Like he was made of data structure. All of a sudden, that efficiency fell down the drain, as he fell depth-first into a puddle with his efficient graph, his ...

94. how to read a table from a word file, using HWPF    forums.oracle.com

I have 2 types of data in a word file: text and tables, and I want to read only the tables content into a String object. I don't know how to do that. I searched on API at HWPF and I don't know what methods should I use, they are very badly described. There is no method that returns a String. ...

95. code for reading a table inside a word file    forums.oracle.com

Thank you very much for your suggestions, they really help me. I will be more expilcit what I want: In my word file I have a lot of text and a lot of different tables. I look for a certain table that has a certain text in table's first cell, and when I find this text in the first cell I ...

96. Save dynamic Contents into Word format file.    forums.oracle.com

Hello sir, I m new in Java. I have problem that is: I have JSP page . it is showing some dynamic contents on browser window . I am using JDBC connection for this. I want to save full data of this in word format. How can i do it? Plz help me.......... Thanks...........

98. Downloading of file(Microsoft Word Document)    forums.oracle.com

99. Word Files in Java    forums.oracle.com

Hi everybody, I know this question has probably been asked a zillion and one times before, but I think I might be putting a bit of a new spin on it. Anyway, I was looking at the Jakarta API's to read and write Microsoft Word Files in Java, and I couldn't make heads or tails of them. Since they have packages ...

100. program inputs and outputs are word files    forums.oracle.com

// input/output file names String inputFileName = "c:\\driver Employee.txt"; String outputFileName = "c:\\driver Employeewrite.txt"; // Create FileReader Object FileReader inputFileReader = new FileReader(inputFileName); FileWriter outputFileReader = new FileWriter(outputFileName); // Create Buffered/PrintWriter Objects BufferedReader inputStream = new BufferedReader(inputFileReader); PrintWriter outputStream = new PrintWriter(outputFileReader); // Keep in mind that all of the above statements can be combined // into the following: //BufferedReader inputStream ...