breaking up a file that has a delimiter

[roy williams]

I have a file that has three messages in it. the messages are separated by *** I would like to go into the file and read the bytes and when it gets to a *** stop and write that message to a different file then go until the next *** and write that to file and so on..
can anyone help explain what I should use? a snippet etc?
thanks a million!

[Michael Morris]

StringTokenizer st = new StringTokenizer(source, "***");
while (st.hasMoreTokens()) {
    String token = st.nextToken();
    // Process token
}

[roy williams]

thanks alot.
Are you saying read the entire file and turn it into a string then use this tokeniizer??

[Jim Yingst]

Yup. It's not the only way to do this, but it's probably the easiest (unless the file is really long and memory usage is a problem).

Reader reader = new FileReader("stuff.txt");
StringWriter writer = new StringWriter();
char[] buf = new char[1024];
for (int n = reader.read(buf); n != -1; )
    writer.write(buf, 0, n);
reader.close();
String str = writer.toString();

[roy williams]

I will give it a try. Thank you very much for your replies.
have a great day!

[Maulin Vasavada]

hi Roy
if u want to use little complex thing then u can try StreamTokenizer as well...
regards
maulin