Java Substring based on condtion-CodePudding

I'm pretty new to Java and I would like to know if there is an effective way of creating a substring based on conditions.

Currently I am reading from a txt file and changing that txt file to a String format using BufferedReader.

I am receiving several txt files but they all have the same format. The data that I want to extract is always on the 45th row. And the 45th row of the txt file always look something like this.

number : abcd

I want to extract the "abcd" part. It would be appreciated if anyone could tell me if there is any way to do this.

CodePudding user response：

Read the file at specific line and Regex for the desired data:

import java.nio.file.Files;
import java.nio.file.Paths;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.regex.Matcher;
import java.util.regex.Pattern;


class Main{

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        
        try{
                String line45 = Files.readAllLines(Paths.get("file.txt")).get(44);

                String pattern = "\\: (.*)"; // Capture everything after ':' colon character

                Pattern r = Pattern.compile(pattern);
                Matcher m = r.matcher(line45);
                if (m.find( )) {
                    System.out.println("Found value: "   m.group(1) );
                }

        }catch (IOException e) {
            System.out.println("entry not found.");
        }
    }
}

Found value: abcd

Assign m.group(1) to a variable and use the data as needed.

CodePudding user response：

This should work:

String s = stringFromTextFile;
s = s.split(":")[1];
s = s.substring(1, s.length());
System.out.println("Abcd: "   s);

The line s = s.split(":")[1] essentially makes an array of the 2 elements. For example, entry 0 would be 'number ', and entry 1 would be ' abcd'. Then, s = s.substring(1, s.length()) removes the space at the beginning of ' abcd', turning it into 'abcd'.

Disclaimer: This code is not fully tested, so some errors may occur.

CodePudding user response：

Read the file contents as list of Strings

    Files.readAllLines(new File(fileName).toPath(), Charset.defaultCharset());

and get the 45th element, then split by : and get the second array element.