CODEWITHSUNDEEP
android
dancer_69
dancer_69

Reputation: 331

how can I get specific word from a text dictionary file stored in raw folder;

I'm using a txt file as database and I want to search the contents of file for specific string(word), and if exists to add it on a listview. I've manage to achive the most part using the above code:

Read the file

public String readTxt(){

     InputStream inputStream = getResources().openRawResource(R.raw.words);
     ByteArrayOutputStream byteArrayOutputStream = new ByteArrayOutputStream();

     int i;
    try {
    i = inputStream.read();
    while (i != -1)
      {
       byteArrayOutputStream.write(i);
       i = inputStream.read();
      }
      inputStream.close();
    } catch (IOException e) {
     // TODO Auto-generated catch block
    e.printStackTrace();
    }

     return byteArrayOutputStream.toString();

Trying to search for string

if(readTxt().contains(word)){
        addWord.add(new String(word));

The problem is that I cannot search for whole words. If I use the above way, I get everything contains string' s characters. For e.g if the word is LETTER, I get a match, but I also get a match if the word is TTE. I've search here and tried some different approaches which discribed but nothing worked.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 740

Answers (2)

greenapps
greenapps

Reputation: 11214

Change .contains(word); to .contains(" " + word + " ");.

Upvotes: 1

Bill Mote
Bill Mote

Reputation: 12823

Use a regular expression pattern matcher to match whole words. This one splits a message into 160 character chunks, but you can easily modify it to find a "whole word".

protected ArrayList<String> splitMsg(SmsMessage smsMessage) {
        ArrayList<String> smt;
        Pattern p = Pattern.compile(".{1,160}");
        Matcher regexMatcher = p.matcher(smsMessage.getMsgBody());
        smt = new ArrayList<String>();
        while (regexMatcher.find()) {
            smt.add(regexMatcher.group());
        }
        return smt;
    }

Upvotes: 0

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