extracting text from notepad files-help? 1

[KenWan]

hi all. um is there a way to extract the values 1 and 2 from a text file containing
[value1][value2]
[another value1][another value 2]
and get rid of those stupid [] brackets?

 

[sedj]

		String s = "[aaa][bbb]";
		String[] sa = s.split("\\[");
		for (int i = 1; i < sa.length; i++) {
			System.err.println(sa[i].replaceAll("]", ""));
		}

 

[KenWan]

Thanks sedj

 

[KenWan]

So I guess my code would look sort of like this?

BufferedReader inFile = new BufferedReader(
                new FileReader("schools.txt") );
String line
while (inFile.ready())
  line = inFile.readLine();
  if (line.length() != 0){
        String[] val1 = line.split("\\[");
        for (int i = 1; i < val1.length; i++) {
            System.err.println(val1[i].replaceAll("]", ""));
             
        }
        //getting the second val after the space in [] []
        String[] val2 = line.split("\\ ["); 
        for (int k = 1; < val2.length; k++){
           System.err.println(val2[k].replaceAll("]"));
        } 

}

Um I guess, i'll give it a shot thanks again Sedj

 

[sedj]

I wouldn't do it like that, because the regular expression "\\[" is used to escape the "[" character, so doing "\\ [" will break the regular expression. Can you post some actual examples of hwat the lines will look like ...

 

[KenWan]

um and example would be
[Primary School] [1]
[Secondary School] [2]
[University] [3]
[Incomplete Primary School] [1]
I've tried using the code that I made but I got errors the following errors.

The method split(String) is undefined for the type String.
The method replaceAll(String)(String) is undefined for the type String.

 

[sedj]

Ahhh, those methods for String are only in SDK 1.4, so I guess you are using 1.3 or below.

The below code will do, in effect, the same thing :

		String s = "[Secondary School] [2]";
		StringTokenizer st = new StringTokenizer(s, "[]");
		while (st.hasMoreTokens()) {
			String part = st.nextToken();
			if (part.trim().length() != 0) {
				System.err.println(part);
			}
		}

 

[KenWan]

Thanks again Sedj, I'll give the code another try tommorow and report back with the results

 

[KenWan]

I gave up using a stringTokenizer and got a substring instead. I'm using the indexOf for both the [] brackets and take the substring between then and squeeze it into an array,it works for now so im happy.