Urgent + Search a delimited file for more then one string

Question

Hi All
Urgent please help I am trying to search a file for 2 different strings.
This is how the command prompt will look like
java match "-t|" -4 -f Harvey -10 -f Atlanta callbook.txtPlease help me with identifying how many search criterias have been entered on command prompt.
"-t|" - denotes a delimiter
-4 - denotes the field number
-f - case sensitive
Thanks

Answer 1

Hi
Thanks for your quick response and I apologise I will never put urgent on my posting again.
C:\>java match "-t|" -4 -f Harvey -10 -f Atlanta callbook.txt
This example lists records for Atlanta with first name Harvey.
I am able to get one search criteria but when I have 2 as above (Harvey and Atlanta) I get lost I do not know how to get these arguments from the commandline and still do a search correctly. My code at the moment is doint a hard coded search so I was trying to extract the arguments that's where I got stuck.
The main aim of my app is to search a delimited file for a search criteria passed through a command prompt.
This is what I have done so far.
import  java.io.*;
import java.util.*;
public class assess1
    static public void main(String args[])
        int[] totals = new int[10];
        try
            BufferedReader inFile = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(args[0]) );
            try
                String line;
          String StrSearch = "HARVEY";
          int counter = 0;
                boolean foundIt = false;
                while((line = inFile.readLine()) != null)
                 // search for the string
                  String[] values = line.split("\\|");
                   for (String str : values) {
               if (str.equals("HARVEY")) {
                           System.out.println(line);
                         System.out.println();
                    counter++;
          if (counter == 0) {
               System.out.println("String not found");
          inFile.close();
            catch(IOException e)
                System.err.println("IO exception");
                System.exit(1);
            catch(NumberFormatException e)
                System.err.println("Value " + e.getMessage() + "not numeric");
        catch(FileNotFoundException e)
            System.err.println( "Couldn't open " + e.getMessage() );
            System.exit(1);
}