AppletTalk.com Java discussions newsgroups   Archives   FAQ   Search   Memberlist   Usergroups   Register   Profile   Log in to check your private messages   Log in  StreamTokenizer or Replacement suggestion?          AppletTalk.com Forum Index -> Java Help View previous topic :: View next topic   Author Message Eric Azarcon Guest Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2004 5:27 pm    Post subject: StreamTokenizer or Replacement suggestion? All, I either need help with StreamTokenizer, a suggestion for a replacemnt library (commercial or free) that will accomplish the same thing. I have no problem using StreamTokenizer to read files. These files may be delimited in typical fashion (tab, comma, etc). They may or may not have quoted text. I am having no problem reading the file, EXCEPT when the text is not quoted. It looks like StreamTokenizer is trying to convert it into a number. Quoted-String, tab delimited does fine. Quoted-string comma delimited is fine. Any unquoted string fails. What setting am I missing to allow me to read a string as a string, even if it is unquoted? Do I set quoteChar('') to empty? A file will either contain quoted-strings or unquoted strings, but not a mixture of both. Files are coming from disparate systems, so I have no ability to normalize them to a single format (apart from writing to preprocess the data of course!). Thanks! Eric Back to top Chris Guest Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2004 9:39 am    Post subject: Re: StreamTokenizer or Replacement suggestion? Quote: It looks like StreamTokenizer is trying to convert it into a number. Are you sure? If the 'string' is unquoted then StreamTokenizer *should* be returning it as a series of white-space delimited words, which should be trivial to re-constitute into a string when you get the next delimiter (say a comma). I've used this approach to handle ropey customer files that sometimes have quoted strings and sometimes don't without any problems. Maybe post the method that's loading the data file? Perhaps there's something wrong with the way you've configured the tokenizer? - sarge Back to top Display posts from previous: All Posts1 Day7 Days2 Weeks1 Month3 Months6 Months1 Year Oldest FirstNewest First         AppletTalk.com Forum Index -> Java Help All times are GMT Page 1 of 1   Jump to: Select a forum Java Newsgroups----------------Java DiscussionsWeb-based java games comp.lang.java 3D Graphics API's for Java Java: Support and criticism Java System Announcements comp.lang.java.api JavaBeans Java and CORBA Java and Databases comp.lang.java.developer Java GUI Toolkits Java Help comp.lang.java.javascript JVM, native methods and hardware comp.lang.java.misc Java Language Programming Security and Java comp.lang.java.setup Java Software Tools comp.lang.java.tech ibm.software.java.linux  Non-English Java Newsgroups----------------Java Language (German)Language Java (Français)Java (Italian)  You cannot post new topics in this forum You cannot reply to topics in this forum You cannot edit your posts in this forum You cannot delete your posts in this forum You cannot vote in polls in this forum Powered by phpBB © 2001, 2006 phpBB Group SEO toolkit © 2004-2006 webmedic.