Reading files in java

Question

Hi people!
Help needed one again. Basically i have a buffered reader which i use tto read a file. After i read a line i send it to a method to break down into sentences by full stop, which is done using regualr expression Pattern[,]. However when the text is written as follows:
Berline wall falls down
by Peter.
It sent the first line and then the second line. What i need it to do is keep reading until it reaches a full stop. Ive posted my code below. Any help would be much appreciated.
import java.io.*;
import java.util.*;
import java.util.regex.*;
public class BreakSentence
Vector sentence = new Vector(500);
public BreakSentence(String fileName)
     try
          BufferedReader input = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(fileName));
          String line = input.readLine();
          while(line!=null)
               makeSentence(line); //Call method to split text file into sentences based on full stop.
               line = input.readLine();
          input.close();
     catch(FileNotFoundException e)
          System.out.println(e);
     catch(IOException e2)
          System.out.println(e2);
private void makeSentence(String a)
     Pattern p = Pattern.compile("[.]");
          // Split input with the pattern
          String[] sentences = p.split(a);
          for( int i=0; i < sentences.length; i++ )
               if(sentences[i] == null || sentences.length() == 1)
               else
               //String noPunc = removePunctuation(sentences[i]);               //remove puncuations
               //System.out.println( "With punctuation: " + sentences[i] );
               //System.out.println( "Without punctuation: " + noPunc );
               //sentence.add( sentences[i].trim() );
               //sentence.add(noPunc.trim());
               sentence.add(sentences[i]);
public void printInformation()
     for(int i =0; i<sentence.size(); i++)
          System.out.println("Position"+ i+ " " +sentence.get(i)  );
public static void main(String[]args)
BreakSentence x = new BreakSentence( "output2.txt" );
x.printInformation();

Answer 1

Please use code tags.
Check out [url http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/java/util/regex/Pattern.html]Pattern.[url http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/java/util/regex/Pattern.html#compile(java.lang.String,%20int)] compile(String regex, int flags) and [url http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/java/util/regex/Pattern.html#MULTILINE]MULTILINE