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using java to serach a text file

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Name: greenbear13
Date: October 28, 2004 at 08:35:28 Pacific
Subject: using java to serach a text file
OS: xp home
CPU/Ram: pent 4
Comment:

well guys, the title says it all; I have a .txt file that I need to search for a particular string ... however, I don't know the line the string will be on or anything, nor even how many lines it will have exactly (it is a string which has the text "busy : x", whhere x is some random integer
any tips?


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Name: bamakhrama
Date: November 17, 2004 at 04:17:49 Pacific
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The idea is to read the file as a whole using streams the search in that array then return the result. You need to look in streams in Java since they provide a powerful capabilities.


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