Re: StreamTokenizer, data records, indexing/ newline trouble

From:
"Jeff Higgins" <oohiggins@yahoo.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.help
Date:
Sun, 1 Apr 2007 16:26:46 -0400
Message-ID:
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Jeff Higgins wrote:

Hi,


Solution:

modified found code:

<http://www.java2s.com/Code/Java/Development-Class/SimpledemoofCSVmatchingusingRegularExpressions.htm>

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/*
 * MODIFIED 1 April 2007 Jeff Higgins, oohiggins@yahoo.com
*/

import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.FileReader;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.regex.Matcher;
import java.util.regex.Pattern;

/* Simple demo of CSV matching using Regular Expressions.
 * Does NOT use the "CSV" class defined in the Java CookBook, but uses
 * a regex pattern simplified from Chapter 7 of <em>Mastering Regular
 * Expressions</em> (p. 205, first edn.)
 * @version $Id: CSVRE.java,v 1.16 2004/04/25 19:43:32 ian Exp $
 */
public class CSVRE {
  /** The rather involved pattern used to match CSV's consists of three
   * alternations: the first matches aquoted field, the second unquoted,
   * the third a null field.
   */
  public static final String CSV_PATTERN = "\"([^\"]+?)\",?|([^,]+),?|,";
  private static Pattern csvRE;
  private ArrayList<Record> list = new ArrayList<Record>();

  public static void main(String[] argv) throws IOException {
    if (argv.length == 0) {
      System.err.println("missing input filename");
      System.exit(1);
    }
    new CSVRE().process(new BufferedReader(new FileReader(argv[0])));
  }

  /** Construct a regex-based CSV parser. */
  public CSVRE() {
    csvRE = Pattern.compile(CSV_PATTERN);
  }

  /** Process one file. Delegates to parse(String in) */
  public void process(BufferedReader in) throws IOException {
    char[] ca = new char[200000];
    in.read(ca);
    String s = String.valueOf(ca);
    s = s.substring(0, s.indexOf(0));
    parse(s);
    for (Record r : list){
      System.out.println(r.code + " " + r.title +
                 " " + r.country + " " + r.description);
    }
  }

  public void parse(String in) {
    Matcher m = csvRE.matcher(in);
    while (false == m.hitEnd()) {
      Record dummy = new Record();
      for (int i = 0; i < 4; i++) {
        m.find();
        String match = m.group();
        if (match == null)
          break;
        if (match.startsWith("\r\n")) {
          match = match.substring(2, match.length() - 1);
        }
        if (match.endsWith(",")) { // trim trailing ,
          match = match.substring(0, match.length() - 1);
        }
        if (match.startsWith("\"")) { // assume also ends with
          match = match.substring(1, match.length() - 1);
        }
        if (match.length() == 0){
          match = null;
        }
        if(i == 0){
          dummy.code = match;
        }
        else if(i == 1){
          dummy.title = match;
        }
        else if(i == 2){
          dummy.country = match;
        }
        else{
          dummy.description = match;
        }
      }
      list.add(dummy);
    }

  }

  static class Record{
    String code;
    String title;
    String country;
    String description;
  }
}

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