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Thread: Scanner delimiter

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    Cool Scanner delimiter

    Hi

    I have an assignment and i think the authors made a mistake because the scanner useDelimiter() method is not working

    Here is the delimiter
    "[\\s[^'a-zA-Z]]"

    So far Ive coded

    Scanner scan = new Scanner(aFileName); // aFileName is an argument in the method header
    scan.useDelimiter([\\s[^'a-zA-Z]]);
    ...
    ...
    While (scan.hasNext())
    {
    String aWord = scan.next()
    ...
    ... //add aWord to a hashMap for processing
    }

    My question is what does the code in the delimiter mean? and can it detect commas i.e (,) or full stops for that matter


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    Default Re: Scanner delimiter

    The code is using a regular expression. Go to the Pattern class in the Java API or google "regex tutorial" for more information.
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