hi im currently trying to construct a piece of code that uses a string tokenizer to find statements within a given piece of code( ie for...while...if.....switch etc) I have neber used the sting tokenizer before and im having problems with it. The problem is that i have the program running but when looping through the program to find the statements, it reads into the comments in the code which i need to stop happening. Iv heard this can be done but cant find out how to. My code is below; import java.io.*; import java.util.*; class Complexity{ static BufferedReader keyboard = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(System.in)); static PrintWriter screen = new PrintWriter(System.out, true); public static void main(String[]args)throws IOException{ String line = null; String f = "for"; String i = "if"; String s = "switch"; String w = "while"; String file; int cc; int count = 0; screen.println("Please input the name of the file which you would like to be read: ");screen.flush(); file = new String(keyboard.readLine()); BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(file)); line = reader.readLine(); while (line!= null){ StringTokenizer tok = new StringTokenizer(line); while (tok.hasMoreTokens()){ String currToken = tok.nextToken(); if (currToken.equals(w)){ count++; } if (currToken.equals(f)){ count++; } if (currToken.equals(s)){ count++; } if (currToken.equals(i)){ count++; } line = reader.readLine(); } } screen.println("The Cyclomatic Complexity of the file is: " + count); } } this works but reads straight into the comments made in the code so i am wondering if theres a line i can add that makes the program ignore the '//' which starts off each comment. Any ideas would be extremely greatfull. Thanks

Hmmmmm - after: while(line!=null) something like: if (line.startsWith("//") { line = reader.readLine(); continue; } int spos = line.indexOf("//"); if (spos != -1) { line = line.substring(0,spos); } Guy