File reader and comparing words

Question

hi, im currently trying to create a project and i need a little help to get it started!
What i need to do is create an application which can read a text file. I also need to have a list of words already in the application, and if a word in the list is also in the text file, id like this to be printed in the terminal.
can anybody help me out with how to start this? ive been looking for relevant posts, and there seems to be alot of things on file reading and comparing words, but they r pretty difficult to follow and not really the same as what im looking for.
thanks for your help!
Torre

Answer 1

You can place a for loop within a for loop to to compare every word in the temp array with every word in the other array.
try {
String[] array = new String[] {"wow", "cool"};
BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new FileReader("text.txt"));
String str;
while ((str = in.readLine()) != null) {
String [] temp = null;
temp = str.split(" ");
for (int i = 0 ; i < temp.length ; i++) {
  for(int j = 0; j < array.length; j++) {
    if (array[j].equals(temp)) {
System.out.println(temp);
} catch (IOException e) {
} finally {
//Always close your resources in your finally block... good coding practice.
in.close();