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    Default find nonletter characters

    I have a large document, and I'm looking for each line that contains a non-letter character. Trust that my method of getting each line's string is correct:

    while (hasNextLine()) {
        String line = nextLine();
        linesearch:
        for (int i = 0; i < line.length(); i++) {
            if(!Character.isLetter(line.charAt(i))) {
                System.out.println(line);
                break linesearch;
            }
        }
    }

    This code doesn't work. It prints out every line in the document. I thought that the if statement would only print out the lines that contain a non-letter character, and then escape that line. What am I missing?
    Thanks


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    Default Re: find nonletter characters

    Put a print statement inside your if statement that prints: System.out.println(line.charAt(i));
    That way we can see where it is seeing a non-letter character.

    Does your line contain spaces? Because that would do it.
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    Default Re: find nonletter characters

    Ah yes, each line contains spaces. Sorry about that. Thanks.

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