Thread: how does java scanner work?

if hava a code using a while loop and .hasnextmethod but it fails to work with one file the file starts with

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if i remove above sectio it works does anyone know why this is ?

What do you mean "it fails to work"? ..What happens? What did you expect instead?
What code? Your screen is hard to see from my house...
If you remove what section?

i have a number of files that i scan with scanner but on this file it fails due to the four spaces at the start of the lines. i assume the scanner checks a number of lines for chars at start of each line and if it doesint find any assumes the file is blank?

the solution i found although i would still like to know more about how to scanner.hasNext() works is

LineIterator it = IOUtils.lineIterator(new BufferedReader(new java.io.FileReader("path to file")));
            for (int i = 0; it.hasNext(); i++){//int i = 0; it.hasNext(); i++
                dd.add((String) it.next());//casts and adds to ArrayList<String>
                }

which did read the file

thanks for replys

Originally Posted by bean

i assume the scanner checks a number of lines for chars at start of each line and if it doesint find any assumes the file is blank?

What did the documentation say?

A scanner can read text from any object which implements the Readable interface. If an invocation of the underlying readable's Readable.read(java.nio.CharBuffer) method throws an IOException then the scanner assumes that the end of the input has been reached. The most recent IOException thrown by the underlying readable can be retrieved via the ioException() method.

but i get no errors thrown the programe reads a file and writes it to plain txt but the writen file is empty, the programe reads a numbr of files but it only fails to grab data from files that have these white spaces.
i have tryed putting Strings at the start of the file but the Scanner doesint even read them which has me puzzled i did read through the doc but couldint find the answer. i have solved the problem but it still has me puzzled no doubth i will run into this problem again or will stumble onto the answer