Re: StreamTokenizer, data records, indexing/ newline trouble

From:
"Zefria" <zefria@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.help
Date:
2 Apr 2007 22:08:22 -0700
Message-ID:
<1175576902.064090.306200@y80g2000hsf.googlegroups.com>
I posted this a bit ago, but it isn't showing up after about 15
minutes, so here's a second post in case the first one got lost in the
ether. I think it satisfies all requirements given.

/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
/**
* Copyright Daniel Gee 2007.
* Use as you like.
*/
import java.io.*;
import java.util.*;
import java.util.regex.*;

public class FieldTokenizer
{
    public static void main(String args[])
    {
        ArrayList<Item> items = new ArrayList<Item>();
        BufferedReader br = null;
        try
        {
            br = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(args[0]));
        }
        catch (Exception e)
        {
            System.err.println(e);
            System.exit(1);
        }
        Item ite;
        char[] tmp;
        int quotecount;
        Pattern p = Pattern
                .compile("(\"?([^\"]*)\"?)?,(\"?([^\"]*)\"?)?,(\"?([^\"]*)\"?)?,
(\"?([^\"]*)\"?)?");
        Matcher m;
        try
        {
            String line = br.readLine();
            while (true)
            {
                ite = new Item();

                tmp = line.toCharArray();
                quotecount = 0;
                for (char c : tmp)
                    if (c == '"') quotecount += 1;
                if (quotecount % 2 != 0)
                {
                    line += "\n";
                    line += br.readLine();
                    continue;
                }
                m = p.matcher(line);
                m.matches();

                try
                {
                    ite.code = m.group(2);
                    if (ite.code.equals("")) ite.code = null;
                }
                catch (java.lang.IllegalStateException e)
                {
                    ite.code = null;
                }
                try
                {
                    ite.title = m.group(4);
                    if (ite.title.equals("")) ite.title = null;
                }
                catch (java.lang.IllegalStateException e)
                {
                    ite.title = null;
                }
                try
                {
                    ite.country = m.group(6);
                    if (ite.country.equals("")) ite.country = null;
                }
                catch (java.lang.IllegalStateException e)
                {
                    ite.country = null;
                }
                try
                {
                    ite.description = m.group(8);
                    if (ite.description.equals("")) ite.description = null;
                }
                catch (java.lang.IllegalStateException e)
                {
                    ite.description = null;
                }

                items.add(ite);
                line = br.readLine();
                if (line == null) break;
            }
        }
        catch (java.io.IOException e)
        {
            System.err.println("IO Exception!?!");
            System.exit(2);
        }
        for (Item i : items)
        {
            System.out.println(i);
        }
    }
    static class Item
    {
        String code, title, country, description;

        public String toString()
        {
            StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer();
            sb.append(this.code);
            sb.append(" ");
            sb.append(this.title);
            sb.append(" ");
            sb.append(this.country);
            sb.append(" ");
            sb.append(this.description);
            return sb.toString();
        }
    }
}

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