Thread: find the position of the field separator in the String---need help ASAP

say

String str = "java|21|new1|kkkk|eee|rrrr||dddd|dddd|ooooo|2073| | ||||7747474|48888|required||||444444|";
int index = str.indexOf("|");

this gives you the index of pipe in the string. But given that you have lot of pipes, use one of the following overloaded methods of indexOf and apply some logic:

int indexOf(int ch)
Returns the index within this string of the first occurrence of the specified character.
int indexOf(int ch, int fromIndex)
Returns the index within this string of the first occurrence of the specified character, starting the search at the specified index.
int indexOf(String str)
Returns the index within this string of the first occurrence of the specified substring.
int indexOf(String str, int fromIndex)
Returns the index within this string of the first occurrence of the specified substring, starting at the specified index.

I would use last method and keep changing the second parameter to get every position of pipe.

Acumen,
Lucid forums

Are you looking to extract the word 'required' and print the position of it within the String?

String index = str.indexOf("required");

that is what you want right?

Acumen,
Lucid forums

Originally Posted by rajesh.mv

yes Exactly(Is there any methods to find out the postion of the string without splitting ).if you know any solution just give me reply

You mean like this then? For the purpose of this code the Strings are in a file called pipefile.txt

import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
 
public class Pipe {
 
    /**
     * JavaProgrammingForums.com
     */
    public static int position;
 
    public void readFile(){
 
          try
          {
          FileInputStream in = new FileInputStream("pipefile.txt");
          BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(in));
          String strLine;
 
          while((strLine = br.readLine())!= null)
          {
           System.out.println(strLine);
           position = strLine.indexOf("required");
           System.out.println("'required' at position " + position);
          }
 
          }catch(Exception e){
           System.out.println(e);
          }
 
    }
 
    public static void main(String[] args) {
 
        Pipe p = new Pipe();
        p.readFile();        
 
    }
}

Example output:

java|21|new1|kkkk|eee|rrrr||dddd|dddd|ooooo|2073|| ||||7747474|48888|required||||444444|.
'required' at position 69
java|22|new2|kkkk|eee|rrrr||dddd|dddd|ooooo|2073|g gggg||rrrrrrrr||5555555|7747474|48888|required|||| 444444|.
'required' at position 89