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Reading from a string or stringbuffer

I am successfully able to read line-by-line from a file stream. Is there a way to do the same thing using a string or a stringbuffer? In other words, if I had information that was passed in from an HTML <TEXTAREA> and it was multiple lines, is there a way in Java to read that line-by-line?

Thanks

zzynx

>>line-by-line
You mean that a \r\n should delimit the lines?

sudhakar_koundinya

StringTokenizer st=new StringTokenizer(string or stringbuffer.toString(),"\r\n");

Is this what you want

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zzynx

StringTokenizer is a legacy class that is retained for compatibility reasons although its use is discouraged in new code.
It is recommended that anyone seeking this functionality use the split method of String or the java.util.regex package instead

That's why this is better:

String originalString = "Line1\r\nLine2";
String lines[] = originalString.split("\r\n");

cjjclifford

that way the same code you used for the file can be re-used, just change how the BufferedReader is created...

zzynx

Hi techhound,

If you consider as assisted answer a solution that uses a class which use is discouraged,
I feel like my comment also deserved the label "assisted answer".

zzynx

The "accepted answer" is certainly the way to go

cjjclifford

:-)

sudhakar_koundinya

thanks for accepting

hellolyfing

Some days ago.I met the same question.
Until last night, I suddenly realized that StringBuffer is just a mid-parameter,why don't we connect the source String with the destination string-collector directly?!
like this:
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before:

StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer();
while() {
       sb.append(something)
}

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after:

ArrayList<String>  al = new ArrayList<String>();
while() {
      al.append(someting +  "\n\r")
}

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and just return the ArrayList instance.