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Thread: reading only certain lines from a .txt file

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    Default reading only certain lines from a .txt file

    Hi i have this code that reads a this txt file below.

    My code:
    try {
        BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new FileReader("file.txt"));
        String str;
        while ((str = in.readLine()) != null) {
            System.out.println(str);
        }
        in.close();
    } catch (IOException e) {
    }
    The File.txt:
    Ollie
    1
    2
    3
    ----
    Fred
    1
    2
    3
    ----
    I would like to edit the code so that it would be more like:
    str.equals("Ollie")
    System.out.println(1);
    System.out.println(2);
    System.out.println(3);

    i know thats not how you code it but just trying to show that it only reads the 3 lines below the name if the name equals "Ollie"

    Thanks in advance
    Ollie =]


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    Default Re: reading only certain lines from a .txt file

    If there's any data you don't want printed out, don't. Just keep reading until you find what you want.

    BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new FileReader("file.txt"));
     
    while (reader.hasNext())
    {
         if (reader.nextLine().equals("Ollie"))
         {
              // prints out the three lines following the name Ollie
              System.out.println(reader.nextLine());
              System.out.println(reader.nextLine());
              System.out.println(reader.nextLine());
         }
    }

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    Default Re: reading only certain lines from a .txt file

    hi thanks for the response, i tried using the reader.hasNext() but it just comes up with this error:
    cannot find symbol
    symbol: method hasNext()
    location: class java.io.BufferedReader
    i have imported:

    import java.io.*;
    import java.io.BufferedReader;
    import java.io.FileReader;

    but none of them seem to fix it, what is the problem?

    Thanks in advance
    Ollie =]

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    Default Re: reading only certain lines from a .txt file

    Oops... my bad. I used the methods from the Scanner class

    note: you will need to either surround this code with a try/catch block, or add a throws declaration to your method.

    Scanner reader = new Scanner(new File("file.txt"));
     
    while (reader.hasNext())
    {
         if (reader.nextLine().equals("Ollie"))
         {
              // prints out the three lines following the name Ollie
              System.out.println(reader.nextLine());
              System.out.println(reader.nextLine());
              System.out.println(reader.nextLine());
         }
    }

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    Default Re: reading only certain lines from a .txt file

    haha its ok just glad i have this it looks alot easier than what i have been doing!! XD

    yer thats what i have been doing for the BufferedReader aswell but thanks for the heads up!

    Thanks helloworld!! =]

    EDIT: for anyone else looking at this to make it work you need to:

    import java.util.Scanner;

    (add it at the very top of the code outside the class)
    Last edited by straw; March 7th, 2010 at 07:51 PM. Reason: Adding more info

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