Re: How to detect a "blank" line.

1999-07-10 Thread Matthias Pfisterer
It seems that s[1] somehow misses the s1.equals("") comparison. The thing to check is what and how many characters s[1] contains. Add something like: int nLength = s[1].length() System.out.println("Length of s[1]: " + nLength); for (int i = 0; i < nLength; i++)

Re: How to detect a "blank" line.

1999-07-09 Thread R MUTHUSWAMY
Hi Matthias, I changed that code and included the s1.equals("") and i found out that it is working that blank line is send as a blank line and other lines are read as a normal line.The output is shown below. s[0]=this is a test file which can s[1]= s[2]=be deleted when not neede

Re: How to detect a "blank" line.

1999-07-09 Thread Matthias Pfisterer
No. From the Java documentation (java.io.DataInput, readLine()): > If the character '\n' is encountered, it is discarded and reading > ceases. If the character '\r' is encountered, it is discarded and, if the >following byte converts to the character > '\n', then that is discarded also

Re: How to detect a "blank" line.

1999-07-08 Thread Larry Gates
>Date: Thu, 08 Jul 1999 12:48:49 +0200 >From: Matthias Pfisterer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Hi, > >In your java program, exchange the line > if (s1.charAt(0)!='#') { // not a comment or NULL line >with > if (s1.equals("") || s1.charAt(0)!='#') { // not a comment or NULL line or it could

Re: How to detect a "blank" line.

1999-07-08 Thread Matthias Pfisterer
Hi, In your java program, exchange the line if (s1.charAt(0)!='#') { // not a comment or NULL line with if (s1.equals("") || s1.charAt(0)!='#') { // not a comment or NULL line Explanation: You get empty lines as empty strings from readLine(). So you first have to check whether th

Re: How to detect a "blank" line.

1999-07-07 Thread Chien-Lung Wu
Hi, The code in JAVA is as following: import java.lang.* ; import java.io.* ; public class PolicyServer { //: main class public static void main (String [] args ) { byte buf[]= new byte[64];

Re: How to detect a "blank" line.

1999-07-07 Thread Matthias Pfisterer
Please show us the code you used. That would make it much easier to understand your problem and to help you. Matthias Pfisterer Chien-Lung Wu wrote: > > Hi, > I try to read in a text file like follow, > > # comments > # > line1 with information > line2 (blank) > line3 with information > line4

How to detect a "blank" line.

1999-07-07 Thread Chien-Lung Wu
Hi, I try to read in a text file like follow, # comments # line1 with information line2 (blank) line3 with information line4 (blank) # comments #comments I write my program in C and also try to use JAVA. One thing very interesting is my program can read-in this text file line by line (ether i