Searching File

Hi all
Help me to search a File from a given directory.

Hi all
Help me to search a File from a given directory.I think you need to be a little more explicit. Also, I hope that your concept of 'help' is not 'post me the code'.

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Nikhil

hello,
Have a look
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import java.io.IOException;
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Could someone please help me fix this function below. It's suppost to search files in a dir for a particular string. I have files in the "./" dir but the function does not seem to output nothing at all.
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try
long l1 = 0L;
BufferedReader bufferedreader = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(as[i]));
Object obj = null;
do
String s1;
do
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continue label0;
l1++;
} while(!s1.contains(s));
l++;
System.out.println((new StringBuilder()).append(" [").append(l).append("] ").append(as[i]).append(" (Line ").append(l1).append(") ").toString());
System.out.println((new StringBuilder()).append(" ").append(s1).append(" ").toString());
System.out.println("");
} while(true);
catch(IOException ioexception)
System.out.println("Critical error while opening file for search!");
ioexception.printStackTrace();
i++;
System.out.println("");
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}Edited by: user13462345 on 12-Dec-2010 11:31

for(int i = 0; i < as.length;)This is an infinite loop, when as.length > 0
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Thank you very much!

Jordi
Now, I want to add functionality of searching
documents by content and so, I thought in using Ultra
Search. My doubt is what shall I do because I don't
want to store files in the database because i would
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how to search files by wildcard expression,
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following code is a filename filter that support '*' and '?', hope it helps.
import java.util.*;
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static public void main(String args[]){
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        in2=new byte[255];
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       chkString=chk.substring(0,first_asterisk);
       if(chkString.indexOf("?")!=-1){
             if(fnLength>first_asterisk-1){
               if(cmp(chkString,fn.substring(0,first_asterisk))==false) return false;
             } else return false;
       } else if(!fn.startsWith(chkString)) return false;
       x4Head=chkString.length()+1;
    } else if(first_asterisk==0) {
         x4Head=findMatch(cString[0],fn);
         if(x4Head==-1) return false;
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      if(last_asterisk!=chkLength-1) {
           if(cString[cCount-2].indexOf("?")==-1){
          x4Tail=fn.substring(x4Head,x4Tail).lastIndexOf(cString[cCount-2]);
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        if(cString[1].indexOf("?")==-1){
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      for(int j=0;j<chkLength;j++){
        if(chkString.charAt(j)!='?' && chkString.charAt(j)!=fnString.charAt(j+i)) {found=false; break;}
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public static String replace(String s, String s1, String s2) {
      if(s!=null && s1!=null && s2!=null){
        int i = 0;
        int j = s.length();
        int k = s1.length();
        int l = s2.length();
        do {
            String s3 = "";
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            if(i == -1)
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            stringbuffer.append(s2).append(s3);
            s = stringbuffer.toString();
            j = s.length();
            i += l;
        } while(i <= j);
      return s;
}

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