Thread: Use of scanner to return white space between the tokens

I'm trying to read in a .java file then output it with highlighted keywords etc. as an HTML file. I obvoiusly want to keep the formating but don't know how to use Scanner to return the whitspace between the tokens.

is it possible or do i need to try another another approach.

can you not do something like this,

Scanner s = new Scanner(new FileReader("test.java")); // handle exceptions
while(s.hasNext()){
  s.readLine(); // do something with this value...like search it for words etc
}

that way you know that the only white space you are skipping is equal to

System.getProperty("line.separator")

and ill not be skipping tabs, spaces etc

Regards,
Chris