nature of a BufferedReader ?

[jite eghagha]

StringTokenizer tokens = new StringTokenizer(stringToTokenize);
while(tokens.hasMoreTokens()) {
String s = tokens.nextToken();
while ((wordToExclud = in.readLine()) != null) {
if(s.equalsIgnoreCase(wordToExclud))
processedString += s + " ";
}
}
in.close();

If "in" is a bufferedReader, containing 100 lines of a text file, what happens within the innner while loop after line 100 ?

Will "in" go to line 1, on the outter whiles second iteration ?

eghagha

[Ernest Friedman-Hill]

No. You get to the end, and then readLine() returns null. It never "rewinds".

[Greg Charles]

You could overcome your dilemma by reading all the lines into a data structure, and then using that to compare to you string tokens. Think very carefully about the amount of work you are doing though. If there are 50 tokens and 100 lines, then you will be doing 5000 string comparisons. You could reduce that number by using a binary search, or at least by breaking out of the inner loop once a match was found.