Reading Character value from a File

[Creeder]

Dear all,

Let's say i have a text file with the following line.

xxxxxtestxxxxxtest2xxxx (x represents a blank space)

How would I output the first word and ignore the second word?

Therefore the output shoud be 'test'.

I guess i would have to determine the length of the string, and check each character whether it is a character or space using isSpace() and isLetter(). But how do i ignore the 2nd word?

Any suggestion would be helpful

Creeder



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[wduty]

Someone will probably come along with something shorter and better but this works on my computer:

StringTokenizer st = new StringTokenizer(YOURSTRING," "
String firstWord = "";
while (st.hasMoreTokens()){
firstWord = st.nextToken();
if (firstWord.length() > 0) break;
}

At this point the variable firstWord would be &quot;test&quot; [sig]<p>--Will Duty<br><a href=mailto:wduty@radicalfringe.com>wduty@radicalfringe.com</a><br><a href= > </a><br> [/sig]