Finding words in a line

I have the following code which searches the occurrence of 3 words in a line. If the three words are present in the line then the line is tokenized. Unfortunately it tokenizes a line which has an occurrence of at least one word and not all the 3 words. Any ideas on how to do this??
JTextField fst, lst, md;
fst = fields[0];
lst = fields[1];
md = fields[2];
try {
while ( (str = raf.readLine()) != null) {
int i = str.indexOf(fst.getText().trim());
int k = str.indexOf(lst.getText().trim());
int l = str.indexOf(md.getText().trim());
if((i < 0) && (k < 0) && (l < 0)){
str = raf.readLine();
else {
StringTokenizer st = new StringTokenizer(str, "\t");
while (st.hasMoreElements()) {
msgout.append(st.nextToken() + "\n");
break;

>
if((i < 0) && (k < 0) && (l < 0)){
str = raf.readLine();
}This will trigger if the line has none of the words, so if the line has even one, the else will work. You probably want to use or ('||') so that if the line is missing even one of the words the above the will trigger

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