Thread: Searching for a word in file

Hello,

I'm having issues with searching for a word in a file. The word is a user input from console, then it should look in a file for it. And print out the position. I'm using indexOf() for this.

Can you please tell me whats wrong with my code? My problem is that when I insert the word and then try to look for it in the file,it doesnt work.

this is the code for The input

 if(input.startsWith("modify"))
            {
                // Call the modify method and pass a string array as argument which does not
                // include "modify" and has split the remaining arguments by whitespace.
                list();
                System.out.println("Please insert the id of the file which you wish to modify: ");
                Scanner scanner = new Scanner(System.in);
 
                choose = scanner.nextLine();
 
                System.out.println("In order to modify an event you can change one field at the time" + "\n" +
                " write the name of the field and then write the new Value");
 
                Changefield  = scanner.nextLine();
                String newValue = scanner.nextLine();
 
                modify(new  String[]{choose,Changefield,newValue} );
                //modify(input.substring(7).split("\\s+"));
            }
 
            // Fall through case
         //   System.out.println("Illegal command: " + input);
 
        }while(!input.equals("quit"));
        // Cleanup.
        System.out.println("EventManager is terminating...");
        in.close();
    }

And here is the code for checking the input if it's in the file:

 try {
            BufferedReader in = null;
            try {
                in = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(file));
            } catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
                e.printStackTrace();  //To change body of catch statement use File | Settings | File Templates.
            }
            in.readLine();
 
            System.out.println("Searching for :" + Changefield + " in file: " + file.getName());
            String line;
            while((line = in.readLine()) != null) {
                int index = line.indexOf(Changefield);
 
                 System.out.println(" Position of " + Changefield + "is at the position: " + index);
            }
 
            Path from = Paths.get(String.valueOf(file));
            Path to = Paths.get("D:\\Uni.lu\\events\\" + id + ".events-Temp.txt");
            CopyOption[] option = new CopyOption[]{
                    StandardCopyOption.REPLACE_EXISTING,
                    StandardCopyOption.COPY_ATTRIBUTES
            };
            for (Path path : Files.copy(from, to, option)) {
 
            }
 
 
 
 
 
 
        } catch (IOException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();  //To change body of catch statement use File | Settings | File Templates.
            }
        }

Thank you for your help,there must be sth wrong with the loop, it doesnt seems to be going into th while to check if the input exists.

Sorry,for not posting th content of the file, here it goes:

Wed Jan 12 14:00:00 CET 1898(heacok

Basically what i want it to check if the input is in the file. For example to check if 14:00 exists in the file.

And then give the position of it.

And about the errors. There are none

OOMG !! It's working..I cant believe it. That I didn't see this. Thank yoou so much I was stacked at this for such a long time..

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*unstuck