Searching for strings in a txt file

Question

I am writing a program based on the six degrees of seperation theory.
Basically I have been given a (very large) txt file from the imdb with a list of all the films written in it.
The text in the document is written like this:
'Tis Autumn: The Search for Jackie Paris (2006)/Paris, Jackie/Moody, James (IV)/Bogdanovich, Peter/Vera, Billy/Ellison, Harlan/Newman, Barry/Whaley, Frank/Murphy, Mark (X)/Tosches, Nick (I)/Moss, Anne Marie
(Desire) (2006)/Ruggieri, Elio/Micijevic, Irena
.45 (2006)/Dorff, Stephen/Laresca, Vincent/Eddis, Tim/Bergschneider, Conrad/Campbell, Shawn (II)/Macfadyen, Angus/John, Suresh/Munch, Tony/Tyler, Aisha/Augustson, Nola/Greenhalgh, Dawn/Strange, Sarah/Jovovich, Milla/Hawtrey, Kay
10 Items or Less (2006)/Ruiz, Hector Atreyu/Torres, Emiliano (II)/Parsons, Jim (II)/Freeman, Morgan (I)/Pallana, Kumar/Cannavale, Bobby/Nam, Leonardo/Hill, Jonah/Vega, Paz/Echols, Jennifer/Dudek, Anne/Berardi, Alexandra
10 MPH (2006)/Weeks, Hunter/Armstrong, Pat (II)/Caldwell, Josh/Waisman, Alon/Keough, Johnathan F./Weeks, Gannon
10 Tricks (2006)/Cruz, Raymond/Swetland, Paul/Selznick, Albie/Hennings, Sam/Gleason, Richard/Leake, Damien/Skipp, Beth/Ishibashi, Brittany/Thompson, Lea (I)/Jinaro, Jossara/Brink, Molly
1001 Nights (2006)/Wright, Jeffrey (I)
10th & Wolf (2006)/Lee, Tommy (VI)/Renfro, Brad/Ligato, Johnny/De Laurentiis, Igor/Luke Jr., Tony/Mihok, Dash/Garito, Ken/Capodice, John/Dennehy, Brian/Gullion, Jesse/Salvi, Francesco (I)/Cordek, Frank/Marsden, James (I)/Bernard, Aaron/Brennan, Patrick (VII)/O'Rourke, Ben/Gallo, Billy/Heaphy, James/Stragand, Dave/Vellozzi, Sonny/Pistone, Joe (I)/Morse, David (III)/Landis, Pete/Cain, Atticus/Trevelino, Dan/Demme, Larry/Sisto, Frank/Rosenbaum, Paul/Grimaldi, James (I)/Ribisi, Giovanni/Hopper, Dennis/Devon, Tony/Sigismondi, Barry/Kilmer, Val/Marinelli, Sonny/Cacia, Joseph/Rossi, Leo (II)/Tott, Jeffrey/Wawrzyniak, Aaron/Boombotze, Joey/Marie, Corina/Arvie, Michilline/Warren, Lesley Ann/De Laurentiis, Veronica/Moresco, Amanda/Boecker, Margot/Rossi, Rose/Latimore, Meritt/Dunlap, Doreen/Perabo, Piper/Horrell, Nickole/Sonnichsen, Ingrid
11 Minutes Ago (2006)/Irving, Len/Welzbacher, Craig/Michaels, Ian/Dahl, Evan Lee/Gebert, Bob/Juuso, Jeremy/Hope, Trip/Green-Gaber, Renata/Dawn, Turiya/Reneau, Taryn/M
Thats just 2 lines!
what the program will do is take in a name (from a gui) of an actor/actress and find the smallest connection to a famous actor.
So first things first, my idea of thinking is to search the file for K.E.V.I.N. B.A.C.O.N and all his films, and safe them into an array. Then do another search for films from the actor that the user entered at the gui. then find the shortest possible connection to both stars.
my code for the search part of the program
import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
public class FileSearch {
     File aFile = new File("cast.06.txt");     
     FileInputStream inFile = null;
     String actor = "surname, forename"; // the person who will be the centre point e.g. kevin.bacon.
       //get the result of the actor from the gui will go here.
     public void openFilm()
          try
              inFile = new FileInputStream(aFile);     
          catch(FileNotFoundException e)
               System.out.println("Error");
}The problem I have is that I can't work out how to search the txt file for a specific string/s and save them into an array. (I'm not sure if this is the best way to go about it or not at this stage).
So whats the best way to search for an actor from that file and save the film title and the year of release?
Hope this makes sense? what I hope the final program will be like is like this http://oracleofbacon.org/

Answer 1

I went away and looked at regular expressions and this is what I came up with
public class NameSearch{
     public static void main(String[] args)
          NameSearch ns = new NameSearch();
          ns.runIt();
     public void runIt()
          java.util.Scanner fileScan = null;
          try{
               fileScan = new java.util.Scanner(new java.io.File("imdb.txt"));
          }catch(java.io.FileNotFoundException e)
               e.printStackTrace();
               System.exit(0);
          String token = null;
          String actor = "Surname, Forename";
//real name will go in actor, left it like that for example
          while(fileScan.hasNext()){
               token = fileScan.next();
               Pattern pattern = Pattern.compile(actor);
               Matcher m = pattern.matcher(token);
               while(m.find())
                    System.out.println(m.start() + m.end());
}This by any means not finished, I'm just trying to get to grips with regualr expressions. But when I run the program it doesn't return anything, from what I've tried to work out is it should return actor x amount of times they appear in the file. But when I run it nothing comes back (the actors name is in the text file) so I'm not too sure what I'm doing wrong, any suggestion please