How to find a particular word in a textArea

Question

can anyone tell me how to search for a particular words in a textArea that contains hundreds of sentences by ignoring the space. for example i want to search for the word "book"
so far i can detect the words with the space included
if the sentence goes like this
"hello_this_isMy book" the searched words can be found
but if the sentece goes like this
"Hello_this_isMy_booK " the searched words can not be found
.. can anyone pls tell me how to do this.

Answer 1

I though you didn't WANT it to be found, your original post isn't clear
public boolean searchWord(String text, String word){
   boolean wordFound = false; 
   StringTokenizer stkn = new StringTokenizer(text," ");
   while(stkn.hasMoreTokens() ){
      String tmp = stkn.nextToken;
      if(tmp.equals(word)) wordFound = true;
   stkn = new StringTokenizer(text,???);   // fill in the -???- yourself
   while(stkn.hasMoreTokens() ){
      String tmp = stkn.nextToken;
      if(tmp.equals(word)) wordFound = true;
   return wordFound;
}