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1. How do I search in files (for example in Java files) in Vista?    stackoverflow.com

Is there a way or tool for Vista I can use to search for content in Java files? (I do not have an Eclipse project set up for it) I used ...

2. How to search in a HTML file for some tags?    stackoverflow.com

I'm having a little problem in Java. How to do this: I want to search in a HTML file for the tags href and src, and then I want to get the ...

3. Search Entire Computer for a File Name in Java    stackoverflow.com

Is there a way to search an entire computer for a String value representing a file name in Java? This would be without knowing the names of the drives on ...

4. Using progress bar in file search    stackoverflow.com

I am writing an application which will search for a particular file or files from the respective path. During searching i need to deploy a progress bar which must run according ...

5. Ignoring large files in IntelliJ file search    stackoverflow.com

We have a large file (9mb) in our SVN project structure. Whenever I Ctrl-Shift-F (find-in-files) in IntelliJ and search, I get the popup "large file encountered" asking me if I want ...

6. Searching for a file with .java extension    stackoverflow.com

is there any way that at first filter all files with the extension as "java" and then search for finding some files with that extension? can you explain with a snippet ...

7. Java file searching problem    stackoverflow.com

I need to search a file for a word and return the whole line and the line number with this word, then edit the line and write back to the file. ...

8. How to search for a string from a file in java?    stackoverflow.com

I have written a program to download a file in java. Now i need to search for a string in that file and if the search is true it should notify through ...

9. Searching a Files Content Using Java?    stackoverflow.com

I would like to write an application, in java, that allows me to open a file (txt) and using the users input, search for all instances of a particular word or ...





10. do searching in a very big ARPA file in a very short time in java    stackoverflow.com

I have an ARPA file which is almost 1 GB. I have to do searching in it in less than 1 minute. I have searched a lot, but I have not ...

11. How can I use an index file to increase the speed of searching in a big file?    stackoverflow.com

I have a very big file (more than 800 MB), and I have to search a string which has been entered by a user as fast as possible (almost 5 seconds). ...

12. Converting a short Java file to c#    stackoverflow.com

I know there are converting tools out there, but they do not do an efficient job. I don't know the c# libraries, and I need to convert the following file, and ...

13. search for multiple strings in a file in java    stackoverflow.com

String[] searchText = {"sports","football","play","time"}; how can i search if these words are available in a file

14. Is it possible to search a file with comrpessed objects in java?    stackoverflow.com

I read from ORACLE of the following bit:

Can I execute methods on compressed versions of my objects, for example isempty(zip(serial(x)))? This is not really ...

15. Remove duplicate data in a file    stackoverflow.com

I have a problem coming up with an algorithm. Will you, guys, help me out here? I have a file which is huge and thus can not be loaded at once. There ...

16. How to search file over LAN in java?    stackoverflow.com

My question is: How to search file in other pc connected through lan in java?





17. Searching / Indexing huge file amounts    stackoverflow.com

I'm struggeling to find an efficient way (< 0.5 sek) to search for specific files in a huge file system having only a little part of the desired file name. Here's the ...

18. Check if file has @    stackoverflow.com

Using Java, I need to figure out a way to check if a file has any email addresses in it and then display the email addresses. Does any one know ...

19. Searching the occurrence of \    stackoverflow.com

I have a String that stores a path. When I print the path, it is like: D:\UnderTest\wavtester.wav. In this string I wanted to know the index of the last occurrence ...

20. Can Java access the search file system feature in the operating system?    stackoverflow.com

In the recent versions of windows, you can hit the start menu and start typing to search for files across the filesystem. Is there a way to do that programmatically in ...

21. Searching for file extension in entire system    stackoverflow.com

I have a created a tray application. User can tick the file extensions which are available in the tray application to search. Therefore, when a user ticks a file extension, (letz ...

22. how to search for string in file    stackoverflow.com

How could I search for string in text file in java? Would it have to be in a text file or could it read a .ini or some other file type example

sound = ...

23. Creating search terms from file names    stackoverflow.com

I am currently trying to build a small system that read's in a bunch of file names (at the moment, only a few hundred), and then allows the user to search ...

24. Search content of Ms-word files using Java    stackoverflow.com

My requirement is search the content from the more than one MS-word or Ms-Excel file that are placed in the same folder. how can i implement this using java Technologies? pls ...

25. File Search    coderanch.com

You could pull it out of the registry. Using regedit, I can see the registry entry that points to perl.exe on my system, so if you could get into the registry getting the location of perl.exe would be easy. I'm not sure how to access the registry from java. You might have to use JNI.

26. Searching for a string in a file    coderanch.com

27. how to search for string in file    coderanch.com

Ok here is the code I wrote for this. this takes two arguments 1 - string to find 2 - filename import java.io.*; class FindString { public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException { if(args.length != 2) { System.out.println("Usage: FindString "); System.exit(1); } RandomAccessFile in = new RandomAccessFile(args[1],"r"); String s = null; int i, loc = 0; for(i=1;(s = in.readLine()) ...

28. Searching a file    coderanch.com

I am trying to create a program that will bring in a file, search for a variable entered into a text field and and return the value after it in another text field. I'm assuming that I want to use randomAccessFile to do this? but I keep running into errors with String variables. is there an easy way to do this? ...

29. Searching within a file    coderanch.com

I created a simple file search for my JSP page which searches file names. However, I do not see any useful methods in java.io for temporarily openning a file to search for a string. If this needs to be done individually by file, I can do that using my file name methods.. but I can't even think of a way to ...

30. how to search file by name?    coderanch.com

I think you want to search a specified directory and subdirectories to find a given filename. It could be something like: method Lookfor Filename in Directory create a new File( directory + filename ) if file.exists() we found it! return the file.getName() else create a new file(directory) do file.list() to get a list of what's in the directory for each entry ...

31. Search through files - API    coderanch.com

Hi all, I need to implement a search feature in one of my jsp application. Here, user inputs the search keyword and the application has search through all the files stored on the server and list out all the files containg the given keyword...So, is there any specific java API for this..? Or I need to read each and every file ...

32. Recursive file search    coderanch.com

33. how to extract search engine results    coderanch.com

hi iam new to java i want to extract URLs from search engine such google i tried it and iam getting one URL how to get all URLs here is my code import java.net.*; import java.io.*; import java.util.*; class Googly2 { public static void main(String[] args) { try{ //Reading the keyword from text file DataInputStream din=new DataInputStream(new BufferedInputStream(new FileInputStream("C:\\Documents and Settings\\Administrator\\Desktop\\keywordfile.txt"))); ...

34. Searching for a file    coderanch.com

Hi i have a directory which contains the log files. the file name format is date_time. my application will get the date as input from the user. Then i have to search for that log file with that date input as filename. eg: my log file directory contains these log files Name Modified time 05-02-05_10:36 05/02/05 10:40 05-02-05_10:38 05/02/05 10:45 05-02-05_10:40 ...

35. File Searching    coderanch.com

36. want to search a string within a file size 2GB    coderanch.com

hi, I have three files called first_err.log, first.log, first.out. In all the three files i want to get the exception names like NullPointerException, IndexOutofBounds, etc and count the total number of occurancy for each exceptions and put in a new file called Excepiton.txt. We should use java version 1.4.x only. please help in this. Thank u

37. how to search particular string only    coderanch.com

Iam reading a following part of file and write to another file... iwant to handle this code.....as single line update2006-10-13T02:31:28ZPARTIAL_PASS from the above program....... iwant output PARTIAL_PASS.I use delimiter as but it takes only first occurence therfor i got output as update only.Can any body helpme wht changes done in abobve code.I only want to change existing code...not ready ...

38. searching a content in a file    coderanch.com

public void findFiles(File root, List files, String word) { if (root.isFile() && contains(root, word)) { files.add(root); } else if (root.isDirectory()) { File[] array = root.listFiles(); if (array != null) { for (File f: array) } findFiles(f, files, word); } } } } This is an example of a recursive method - if the File is a directory, the same method is ...

39. Performing searches in files    coderanch.com

Hi All, I am facing a problem with performing searches in files (details below):- The code is written in Java and the aim is to automate a painful process. Search for a block say in a huge big bunch of files which are inside folders and subfolders: boolean isRequired() { return true; } 2)Once the above search is done, the search ...

40. searching a file    coderanch.com

Hello all. I'm very close to completing my very first complete Java application but I ran into a problem that I can't figure out how to solve. So I came here to my favorite place for Java answers. Here's what I'm doing. The first part of the program takes three pieces of information from you and slaps it into a file. ...

41. searching file among 3 hundred thousand files    coderanch.com

Hi all, i have to search for a particular PDF file among a collection of more than 3 hundred thousand files. I m first making a file object and then taking all the file names into a String array for further processing. But on running this, my server is getting hanged. Is this could be because of very large number of ...

42. searching a file in hierarchy and delete    coderanch.com

hi , i have to delete a file from a directory structure .i donot know where is file stored in my folder hierarchy .i have to search that file and delete that file . for example ; i have a folder name A , which have folder B ,C ,D ,E . B folder have other 2 folder or 3 file ...

43. searching a string in an HTML file    coderanch.com

How to search a string in an HTML file using java? I want to parse the html page.I have written a code to serach but its seraching including html tag.But i want to search only in html body only. Here is my code:- public class match { public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException { String pattern = "The String"; Pattern ...

44. Pattern-based file/class searching    coderanch.com

Hello friends, I am not sure if this fits in the "Basic" section or here. So pardon me if I am posting in the incorrect forum. I have a requirement to load all XML files on the classpath that have a "table" in their name. In Unix terms, this might mean something like: find . -name *table*.xml Can this be achieved ...

45. Searching a File    coderanch.com

46. Searching a file    coderanch.com

I have a ClassroomFile.txt file that contains: SEC INSTRUCTOR DAYS START END Location BLD/RM CAP Enrolled Available ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ACCT 205 001 Osgood,James MWF 09:40 11:30 Main Campus B102A 40 41 0 ACCT 205 002 Osgood,James MWF 11:40 01:30 Main Campus B102A 40 41 0 ACCT 205 004 Osgood,James MWF 01:40 02:30 Main Campus B102A 40 46 0 ACCT 205 005 Novak,Edwin ...

47. search files    coderanch.com

48. searching for a content in a file    coderanch.com

49. How to search a file???    coderanch.com

Well i am facing a problem with this search thing. The problem is i am storing the search string in a variable and using it to search an *.sql file. But the problem is... the search is ignoring the match case even if it finds the match. The object of my code is to take a search string from Names.txt and ...

50. search a file in java    coderanch.com

51. Movie Search Options    coderanch.com

Hi Guys i need Basic Help on the following. I have two Text Fields (txtTitle AND txtGenre)...I want to know the logic on how to check the folloing. A user mast be able to Search Via txtTitle only OR Search Via txtGenre OR Search Via both. When a user Searches Via txtTitle, He/She Must type the Titles In Capital Letters else ...

52. Search For File    coderanch.com

Hi, Following is the directory structure in which i need to llok for the files. A--------B-------C | | | | | | FOL D FOL | | E-----F----FOL | | G | | FOL I need to search for the files which exist only in "FOL". As you can notice easily that it's not necessary that every directory must contain "FOL". ...

53. Attempting to search a file    coderanch.com

Hello, I am trying to search a text file that looks like this Smith;John;332-5467 Jones;Mary;456-2312 Sam;Henry;345-0987 Henry;Ed;768-0934 Jones;Paula;222-8787 Smith;Karen;343-0223 Everything seems to be working except the part that needs to work. for(int i=0; i

54. Is it possible to write a reg exp to search for files?    coderanch.com

Hi, I'm using Java 1.5. In a certain directory, I want to search for the presence of a file, say "a.txt" and if that exists, then create a file "a-1.txt". If there is an "a.txt" and an "a-1.txt" file, I want to create a "a-2.txt" file. Short of doing loops, is there a way I can check if a "a-#.txt" file ...

55. searching a file    coderanch.com

56. Searching for files of a specific type in jdk1.4    coderanch.com

Am using jdk1.6 and want to find an easy way, from within a JUnit test, to locate files in my project of a specific type I want my test to find all files that end with "hbm.xml" and once i have a list of the files, to then read their contents. I can do the below individually for one file but ...

57. Searching for a better way of stripping a file    coderanch.com

Hello everybody, Hope everything is well at the wonderful javaranch. I've been writing a piece of code that reads in a text file, seperates out the lines, takes the lines that are deemed to contain valid input and uses these lines to instantiate a bunch of objects in an ArrayList. The text file that the app reads from contains a list ...

58. homework question file search    coderanch.com

Hello everyone, its my first time here. Nice to meet everyone. This is the question; Write a program Find that searches all files specified on the command line and prints out all lines containing a reserved word. Start a new thread for each file. So by just reading each file individually and using each one in a different thread so they ...

59. How to search a pattern in a large file using java    coderanch.com

I am right now going through a 3GB log file, matching a specific pattern on each line, and moving that line to a file depending on the value of that pattern. (To be more precise, I'm splitting a single 3GB Apache HTTPD log file of several months into one log file per day.) No problem with that.

60. dynamically search user input files    go4expert.com

When we want to open a file from java program, we use the following syntax. File namefile = new File ("file-path\\file-name"); eg. File namefile = new File("C:\\Workspace\\myapplication\\mydata.xml") But instead of that 'mydata.xml', i would like to get the file name from the user input and accept it with variable and then I will search it whether it exists in the folder ...

62. searching in a saved file    java-forums.org

There are a lot of unknowns, but assuming (and I always get into trouble doing this) you have a simple text file, then I suppose you'd read the file in, hopefully creating objects as you do your reading, and possibly place the objects into an array list. Then you could sort the array list, search it, and extract information as needed. ...

63. Searching and replacing characters in a File    java-forums.org

Hello again. I have an assignment that I need to finish pretty soon, and I did a lot of research on this, but still could use some guidance. The project is about opening a file, searching the characters in it using CharAt I assume, and then replacing those characters. I think the hardest part of all is replacing characters in the ...

64. Searching though multiple direectories for a file    forums.oracle.com

The "files" I'm looking though are all images. So if the file is not found then I will set a "default" image to display. I guess I should have been more clear. I'm expecting people to give me an image file name (ex. cat_up_a_tree.jpg) and then I need to go see if that file is anywhere within the files that are ...

65. How To Search For a Specific File name?    forums.oracle.com

67. search te xt from a file    forums.oracle.com

68. Searching for file which is part of the project    forums.oracle.com

Hi, I am trying to modify a complex java project. I have discovered how things work within this project. The project is made of EJB, EAR and jar files. With in my script I want to search for a given file name in EJB. Is there a simple library that I can use? Thanks Shah

69. search and open files    forums.oracle.com

70. problem with file searching    forums.oracle.com

71. File searching    forums.oracle.com

72. file search method    forums.oracle.com

73. searching contents of a file.    forums.oracle.com

Hey guys I'm making a dos style command prompt for a school project and I need to search the contents of an . ini file to get the setup options for when the cmd boots up. I've got some exp with java, but don't know enough about it to search the contents of a file. The proccess the string to see ...

74. File search?    forums.oracle.com

75. File Searching    forums.oracle.com

Hi guys , i recently wrote a program to search a file , the user will input the text to be searched in my file . After the search is completed , i note that i can only reset the file to search from top of file again by closing and opening the file again . Is that another method of ...

77. How to search and compare two files    forums.oracle.com

Is there a method in Java that can take input of one .txt file, and read through each token and see if that token is in another file (a reference file, like a dictionary). It would be preferable if the scanner class was used to read the files, word by word. I just don't know how to see if a word ...

79. how to search file in java    forums.oracle.com

Suppose String directoryPath = "myname/mohan/"; String htmlFileName = " mohan.html"; String [] str = null; String ansolutePath = directoryPath+htmlFileName ; File file = new File( ansolutePath ); str = file.list(); if(str.length == 0) { log.info("HTML FILE IS MISSING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"); } else { if(str.endsWith(".html") { log.info("HTML FILE IS PRESENT......."); //now do ur stuff } else { log.info("THIS FOLDER HAS NO HTML FILE PRESENT.........."); ...

80. search a string with in some file and get the name of file    forums.oracle.com

import java.io.*; import java.util.*; public class linux_java { public static void main(String[] args) { try { //String command = "ls -alt"; String command = "find /data2/opt/jakarta-tomcat-4.1.24/webapps/Oa/BOG -type f -exec grep -sl 'Aggarwal' {} ; 2>/dev/null"; ///grep -l System test/*java System.out.println(" the command is"+command); final Process process = Runtime.getRuntime().exec(command); InputStream is = process.getErrorStream(); InputStreamReader isr = new InputStreamReader(is); BufferedReader br = new ...

81. How to search every file on a computer in java    forums.oracle.com

Hey guys, right now im writing a mac antivirus (i mostly use windows) i have the test code to search for hex code clips i have another file to use so i can replace it using a updater to make getting new virus terms more easy. but what it the way to go through and read every file? i can set ...

82. search files    forums.oracle.com

Hi all, i need a help here.. i am doing document search in my application...i have all my files inside a folder..folder contains many folders and inside many files are there..if i specify one string it should display all the files that contains that word. for example if i search a word "welcome" if any file that contains welcome at any ...

83. NEED HELP!! creating a method to search records from a data.dat file    forums.oracle.com

i am having a lot of trouble trying to create a method for searching records from a data.dat file as a contacts application i am using (for) and (if) together and getting the same error messages saying a ")" is needed when it doesn't and illegal start of expression can anyone help! on letting me know how you create search methods! ...

84. searching a loaded file    forums.oracle.com

I am populating the list in another method. If i run the application everything works fine. I can add to the list, print the list to the screen, save the list, load it back in and sort the list. The only problem i am having is that the search wont work on a loaded list. If i populate the list and ...

85. Search Computer for a String file name...    forums.oracle.com

You want to know if any file has that name? Or if any file contains that text in its contents? java.io.File has methods to get the root directories (e.g., the C:, D:, etc. drives on windows) It also has methods to list all the files and directories in a directory. So the simplest thing is to start at all the roots, ...

86. how to search a file on remote machine    forums.oracle.com

87. Search Through File with OPENCSV    forums.oracle.com

88. How to search sting in file    forums.oracle.com

int x; FileInputStream in; BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(System.in)); try { in = new FileInputStream("C: myfile.txt"); do { x=in.read(); if (x != -1) System.out.print((char)x); } while(x != -1); in.close(); } catch (Exception e) { System.out.println("File not Found"); } } } How to search throughout the file line by line and fetch it

89. Recursively search files    forums.oracle.com

90. How to search for a file?    forums.oracle.com

I tried your method but the program is unable to detect the file when i put it inside a folder. Thats why i thought of a program to search the entire thumbdrive to detect the file. Is there any other way? Then you should have posted a follow up question in that old thread! Now you're posting a new one and ...

91. Problems with search file method    forums.oracle.com

As an aside, if you are searching for multiple files with the same name located in different folders then your algo is fine but if you are just searching for the first instance of a file name then you might want to consider putting a return condition at the beginning of your method.

92. display name of file when searching data?    forums.oracle.com

I still don't get the question. If there are many files, how do you pick one to read from? Or if you read from every one in turn, how do you manage to do that? Whatever you do, once you've got a file to read from, getting its name shouldn't be a lot of trouble.

93. Java recursive file search    forums.oracle.com

94. Search for file on local drives    forums.oracle.com

95. Searching a file    forums.oracle.com

/* Points out occurances & independent words in a given line(String) may fail when user needs to search independent words only eg: SearchString = god Line: Life is all about playing roles designated by god Present Code snippet Works fine.... Line:gudgod !!! ppl speak rubbish @ times May / may not break the loop as god is not an independent word(again ...

96. Searching a FIle for a Pattern    forums.oracle.com

Hi, I am not quite sure how to start off this program, I have the text file being read but I need to search for a pattern within that file which may include spaces (pattern is input by the user). I just need a push in the right direction, any help is appreciated. Thanks.

97. Search and replace strings in a file while ignoring substrings    forums.oracle.com

I have a java program that searches and replaces strings in a file. It makes a new copy of the file, searches for a string in the copy, replaces the string and renames the new copy to the original file, thereafter deleting the copy. Now searching for "abcd", for eg works fine, but searching for "Topabcd" and replacing it doesnot work ...

98. File search    forums.oracle.com

Hi, I am working on a private project to improve a shell i wrote in a java a long time ago. I am trying to implement a search program. That will search for a file anyqhere in the HD and if found it will return the location. Any ideas will be appreciated! Thanks

99. File Dailog with auto search    forums.oracle.com