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1. How to make Java read very big files using Scanner?    stackoverflow.com

I'm using the following basic function which I copied from the net to read a text file

    public void read ()
{
    File file = new ...

2. How to obtain position in file (byte-position) from java scanner?    stackoverflow.com

How to obtain a position in file (byte-position) from the java scanner?

Scanner scanner = new Scanner(new File("file"));
scanner.useDelimiter("abc");
scanner.hasNext();
String result = scanner.next();
and now: how to get the position of result in file (in ...

3. Java Scanner won't follow file    stackoverflow.com

Trying to tail / parse some log files. Entries start with a date then can span many lines. This works, but does not ever see new entries to file.

File inputFile = new ...

4. reading file through scanner device in java    stackoverflow.com

how can i read file of any type using scanner hardware device in java

5. Can you jump a scanner to a location in file or scan backwards?    stackoverflow.com

I have a very large text file and I need to gather data from somewhere near the end. Maybe Scanner isn't the best way to do this but it would ...

6. Scanner + System.in stop condition    stackoverflow.com

I'm reading a file with Scanner + System.in. My command in Linux looks like:

cat -A test.txt | java -jar test.jar
I'm reading input like:
Scanner input = new Scanner(System.in);

    while ...

7. Java Scanner unable to read file    stackoverflow.com

I'm doing a very simple text-parsing program, using files given to me by a friend. However, when I open the file using a Scanner like so,

Scanner scan = new Scanner(new File(path));
System.err.println(scan.hasNext());
while(scan.hasNextLine())
  ...

8. java.util.Scanner malfunctioning while reading large files    stackoverflow.com

I wrote a program where I used a Scanner to read lines from log files and parse each line to find something important. It is important that I read every line ...

9. How to get the name of a File that is in a Scanner Object in java?    stackoverflow.com

Hello: I was given a Scanner that is a File. Something like this:

Scanner theScan = new Scanner(new File("name.file"));
I was wondering if there is a way to get the name of the file ...





10. Why is the variable read from the Scanner method next() or nextDouble() equal to a String or double respectively    stackoverflow.com

For example, If I declare a String variable and a double variable

String d = "dragon";
double = 1.45;
And then I have a text file and on the first line of the file it ...

11. Scanner in Java    stackoverflow.com

when I try to scan the folder Files it gives me an error saying access is denied. The folder contains txt files to scan through.

Scanner ScanningFile = new Scanner(new File("Files")); ...

12. how can I get end of file in java using Scanner    stackoverflow.com

I am getting input from Scanner and system.in and I want to get the enter from output. I have a loop as while(keyboard.hasnext()) do something. But when I hit enter it ...

13. Java, Memory usage for "Scanner"    stackoverflow.com

I'm running an online automatic program evaluation platform and for one of the exercises the Java "Scanner" is using way too much memory (we are just starting to support Java so ...

14. Basic Inquiry about Java Scanner    stackoverflow.com

I'm trying to get Java's scanner to keep accepting input until the user types some variation of "end," like, "END", "eNd", "eND", etc. However, due to my limited experience with Scanner, I ...

15. Java scanner not going through entire file    stackoverflow.com

I'm writing a program in Java and one of the things that I need to do is to create a set of every valid location for a shortest path problem. The ...

16. Interfacing with a Barcode scanner?    coderanch.com





17. Scanner and nextChar?    coderanch.com

18. Question: Scanner and nextLine    coderanch.com

I've created a file, named myfile.txt, which contains nothing in it except one linebreak (no text, and no more than one linebreak). When I run the following code, I don't get an exception: import java.util.Scanner; import static java.lang.System.out; import java.io.*; class More { public static void main(String args[]) throws IOException { Scanner scanner = Scanner.create(new File("myfile.txt")); out.printf(">>%s<<\n", scanner.nextLine()); out.printf(">>%s<<\n", scanner.nextLine()); out.printf(">>%s<<\n", ...

19. how to read the scanner    coderanch.com

20. Using Scanner to read a single character    coderanch.com

Um, won't nextInt() throw an InputMismatchException if the next token isn't a text representation of a number? It's like calling Integer.parseInt("foo") - there's no way to interpret that as a number. For what Barry wants - well, I'm actually a bit surprised there's no direct method for this. Hunh. I don't really see any good answer desides the obvious: Call scanner.next() ...

21. Scanner    coderanch.com

22. SCANNER API and Sorting    coderanch.com

I have a scanner reading a comma delimited file. It write three fields to a text file. I need to sort this file while looping through the file. If the first field matches the first field of subsequent lines and the second field does not match the fields if the outer if test I need to increment a counter. Any suggestions? ...

23. Scanner and SortedSet    coderanch.com

I am using a scanner to scan a text file and write out three fields to another text file. I need to sort the file based on the taxID and a deeper sort based on classcode. if the taxId is the same and the classcode is different then I need to increment the counter and print the line. If taxId and ...

24. Reading from multiple files using Scanner to extract data    coderanch.com

Hi, I'm trying to write a programme which searches through a file directory and extracts the emails from each file (for insertion into a database for an internal login system so it never sees the actual files) and have got myself out of my depth. Separately my two scripts read the fle directory and return the list and the pattern matching ...

25. delimiters and Scanner class    coderanch.com

beginner programmer having trouble with Scanner and delimiters. Here is the code that does not work: import java.util.Scanner; public class ScannerTester { public static void main(String[] args) { Scanner s = new Scanner(System.in); System.out.println("Enter a double "); double d = s.nextDouble(); System.out.println("Your double is " + d); System.out.println("enter some more text\n"); String thisString = s.nextLine(); System.out.println(thisString); } } The problem is ...

26. how to read a Chinese character file using Scanner ?    coderanch.com

Hi Edward, The Scanner class is used for parsing of String data using regular expressions. The locale can affect how characters are interpreted in relationship to regular expressions that you may use with the scanner. The Scanner class doesn't have anything to do with displaying of characters. I suspect that you are using additional code such as System.out.println() statements. Depending on ...

27. Pipe Seperated file using Scanner    coderanch.com

28. Use enf of file character in Scanner    coderanch.com

I'm using scanner to fetch input from inputstream(System.in) The challenge is: 1) After printing the values , the connection to inputstream is not closed i.e it is ready to accept input values from System.in when it is not needed, atleast in my case. 2) So how to make the scanner find the end of file from the input stream. import java.util.Scanner; ...

29. Reading a file using Scanner    coderanch.com

Thank you for the reply. I have placed a 'SelfEmployedA.txt' file in the same directory from which I am running the application. It also does not seem to want to work. I really am baffled. //this is the Application program C:\Installs\Java\Workspace\NetBeans\Projects\MyProjects\src\packagetwo\TSD2.java //this is the file in the same directory C:\Installs\Java\Workspace\NetBeans\Projects\MyProjects\src\packagetwo\SelfEmployedA.txt //these are picked up in the hard coded directory in the ...

30. scanner.hasNext() for System.in    coderanch.com

Hi All, Why cant I end the loop and break off from my application when I use a Scanner? why scanner.hasNext() always returns me true for (System.in)? Is there any way, I can break off the while scanner.hasNext() loop ? I dont want any end of line indicator to be given by the user.. Please advice, thanks in advance!

31. Using Scanner need help comparing two files so I can write out data I need.    coderanch.com

Trying to compare two files one has 3 million records the other has 250,000 I want to loop through scanner with scanner2 line by line so if there is a match I can then substring file Number and a couple other fields off the file with 3 million records. Currently I can only put in a file number and find one ...

32. How to use Scanner and reg exp to break up string    coderanch.com

I am trying to use Scanner to break up a string that i read in from file. File data is: RFH ^@^@^@^B^@^@^@^@^@^A^Q^@^@^D ^@^@^@^@^@^@^D^@^@^@ jms_bytes ^@^@^@dqueue:///panddArchiveVerifyStep1.V001_I12801384101022< /jms> 571:8:*SYD01_P,31:*panddArchiveVerifyStep1.V001_I,520:454:28:panddArchiveVerifyStep1.V001,417: panddArchiveVerify001< n0:docImageID>142564482010-06-16T20:40:48.4950,,4:cert,16: dummycertificate,4:algo,3:DES,3:sig,9:[B@7b3082,0:,,, The steps i need to do are: Get length from :28 to Prefix this length to before :28 and get rid of the rest is there a ...

33. Scanner - Help    coderanch.com

35. how to read barcode code 39 type from scanner?    coderanch.com

Maybe this? http://www.ccdscanner.net/barcode-scanner-rs232-wisnap-wifi-rs232-serial-adapter-with-osx-and-javaterm.html It uses Java IO. Maybe you could find the program used? cc11rocks EDIT : The program they use is "JavaTerm" I believe. It is for all platforms and is made in Java. Maybe you'll figure something out with this? http://serialio.com/support/jspJavaTerm.php EDIT (2) : In this next article, I found these (Same website, different webpage) : http://serialio.com/products/serialport/packages.php "Java Source ...

36. Using Read/Write From File Using Scanner    java-forums.org

Ok, I'm created a rental car service program that allows the user to input their information and receive the results in a joptionpane dialog box. Now, I have to create a text file that will show the information exactly how the user has entered it and the same exact way that it shows up in the joptionpane dialog box. I've created ...

37. Reset a Scanner to the beginning of a file    java-forums.org

import java.io.IOException; import java.io.StringReader; import java.util.Scanner; public class ScannerEg { public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException { String data = "This is a\nthree line\nimitation file"; StringReader in = new StringReader(data); Scanner scanner = new Scanner(in); int counter = 1; //while(scanner.hasNext()) { // System.out.printf("%d: %s%n", counter++, scanner.next()); //} //System.out.printf("%d: %s%n", counter++, scanner.next()); scanner.next(); in.reset(); while(scanner.hasNext()) { System.out.printf("%d: %s%n", counter++, scanner.next()); } ...

38. trouble with Scanner(new File("input"));    java-forums.org

Hello, I am having trouble with the File method, it gives the error, even though the files input1 and input2 are plain text files and located in the directory where it is executing.... "Exception in thread "main" java.lang.Error: Unresolved compilation problems: Unhandled exception type FileNotFoundException Unhandled exception type FileNotFoundException at compare.main(compare.java:9) " My code is: import java.io.*; import java.util.Scanner; public class ...

39. Scanner to write a new file    forums.oracle.com

40. How Do I set up Scanner for .dat file    forums.oracle.com

Create your file with any text editor. When saving file use "save as". Name the file with a ".dat" extension. Be sure to specify the file type as a plain text file (*.txt). Don't worry the ".dat" extension name will remain the same. You may want to change the code to call the input file as follows: Scanner inFile = new ...

41. Need help with java file scanner and objects    forums.oracle.com

Hi, i've got an assignment that asks me to do these, but i cant seem to get around in solving it. Any help will be much appreciated. TYVM! Create a class called TVProgram that can store some important details of a television program: - name of the show - the channel the show is on - the start time (in 24-hour ...

43. Which is better : read file using Scanner or defined my own TextReader    forums.oracle.com

Hi, I want to make a java program that counts the number occurence of words in a text file. For example, i run my file then the output : You =1 are=2 ..... When i decided to read the file, however i found that rather than defined my own TextReader, i can also use the Scanner. I try to run both ...

44. File scanner help    forums.oracle.com

Well it is clear as mud what you are trying to do and what your problem is. Can you post expected output as well as actual output so we can compare. For now, what is the purpose of s in your main method? You return a string from the checkFile() method and store it in s but then do nothing with ...

45. why cant i find fine my file??? using scanner    forums.oracle.com

I read the API about the File class but i still didn't understand it, im really new to programming and so it sounded really confusing. My professor just put in the file name and it worked when he showed us, he was using windows, im using ubuntu. Could that be the problem?

46. Follow Up to Scanner Input from File    forums.oracle.com

What I meant by first line, was the current line. Edit: Sorry, I didn't get your meaning. I think what you meant was what would happen if the first line was blank? The j-- fixes that problem, so that it finds the correct start location. And it works. And I figured that the username's length was directly related to the numAccounts ...

47. Scanner Input from File    forums.oracle.com

I already have something else that is handling non-existent files, so I don't need to do anything there. And thank you very much, I figured out how to do it! I just needed to temporarily store the line, see if it was longer than 1 in length, and perform based on that. Thank you very much! Edited by: ManiKatti on Dec ...

48. Opening a file with Scanner FUNNY CODE    forums.oracle.com

} } } } ANYTHING WRONG WITH THIS? I'M TRYING TO COMPARE THE FIRST LINE OF A TXT FILE WITH ALL THE lines from the other file. HOWEVER, When i run it, t.hasNext() STARTS READING FROM THE 4TH LINE OF THE FILE. I can't figure it out. help please thanks Edited by: lsn67a02j3 on Mar 21, 2009 7:35 PM Edited by: ...

49. Problem Scanner when file is too big    forums.oracle.com

The file contains text only... When I print that line, nothing seems to be different to another line printed before... Thanks a lot for trying to help me. I don't have a lot of time, so if I don't find the problem quickly, I think I'm gonna remove that line and continue with the following...

51. Reset scanner to beginning of file    forums.oracle.com

53. Working with scanner which can't find my file    forums.oracle.com

Hi, all: I'm working with the Scanner class for the first time, and I'm trying to go through the tutorial. I'm using Eclipse. When I try to access the file called "xanadu.txt" when running the application ScanXan, I'm throwing a file not found exception. I have the file xanadu.txt in the same location as the class file, and for good measure ...

54. reading a file with scanner    forums.oracle.com

55. Problem - Scanner.java file not found    forums.oracle.com

Hello all, I've been having a problem with a Java installation on windows vista. I've installed both the Java 2 1.4.2_16 sdk, and the Java EE 5 update 3 sdk. However, neither install contains the Scanner.java file... On my desktop running XP, this is not the case. I've tried reinstalling but to no avail. My classpath is set correctly because my ...

56. Scanner to read data from file    forums.oracle.com

i pretty sure he means he want to get the value of abc and store in a string called"a" if so, your txt file format should be Abc Bcd Cde and then after that u can read the text file using bufferedreader [code] FileReader FR=new FileReader(TheFileHere); BufferedReader BR=new BufferedReader(FR); String a=BR.readLine(); String b=BR.readLine(); String c=BR.readLine();

58. Trying to read a file with Scanner    forums.oracle.com

59. Scanner Reading Files    forums.oracle.com