/*license*\ XBN-Java: Copyright (C) 2014, Jeff Epstein (aliteralmind __DASH__ github __AT__ yahoo __DOT__ com) This software is dual-licensed under the: - Lesser General Public License (LGPL) version 3.0 or, at your option, any later version; - Apache Software License (ASL) version 2.0. Either license may be applied at your discretion. More information may be found at - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-licensing. The text of both licenses is available in the root directory of this project, under the names "LICENSE_lgpl-3.0.txt" and "LICENSE_asl-2.0.txt". The latest copies may be downloaded at: - LGPL 3.0: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl-3.0.txt - ASL 2.0: http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.txt \*license*/ package com.github.xbn.examples.regexutil.non_xbn; import java.util.Iterator; import java.util.ArrayList; import java.io.File; import java.io.IOException; import org.apache.commons.io.FileUtils; /** <p>Read in a file, accepting all lines between two markers, ignoring the first line.</p> <p>{@code java com.github.xbn.examples.regexutil.non_xbn.BetweenLineMarkersButSkipFirstXmpl xbnjava\xbn\examples\text\regex\BetweenLineMarkersButSkipFirstXmpl_data.txt}</p> * @since 0.1.0 * @author Copyright (C) 2014, Jeff Epstein ({@code aliteralmind __DASH__ github __AT__ yahoo __DOT__ com}), dual-licensed under the LGPL (version 3.0 or later) or the ASL (version 2.0). See source code for details. <a href="http://xbnjava.aliteralmind.com">{@code http://xbnjava.aliteralmind.com}</a>, <a href="https://github.com/aliteralmind/xbnjava">{@code https://github.com/aliteralmind/xbnjava}</a> **/ public class BetweenLineMarkersButSkipFirstXmpl { public static final void main(String[] as_1RqdTxtFilePath) { Iterator<String> lineItr = null; try { lineItr = FileUtils.lineIterator(new File(as_1RqdTxtFilePath[0])); //Throws npx if null } catch(IOException iox) { throw new RuntimeException("Attempting to open \"" + as_1RqdTxtFilePath[0] + "\"", iox); } catch(RuntimeException rx) { throw new RuntimeException("One required parameter: The path to the text file.", rx); } String LINE_SEP = System.getProperty("line.separator", "\n"); ArrayList<String> alsItems = new ArrayList<String>(); boolean bStartMark = false; boolean bLine1Skipped = false; StringBuilder sdCurrentItem = new StringBuilder(); while(lineItr.hasNext()) { String sLine = lineItr.next().trim(); if(!bStartMark) { if(sLine.startsWith(".START_SEQUENCE")) { bStartMark = true; continue; } throw new IllegalStateException("Start mark not found."); } if(!bLine1Skipped) { bLine1Skipped = true; continue; } else if(!sLine.equals(".END_SEQUENCE")) { sdCurrentItem.append(sLine).append(LINE_SEP); } else { alsItems.add(sdCurrentItem.toString()); sdCurrentItem.setLength(0); bStartMark = false; bLine1Skipped = false; continue; } } for(String s : alsItems) { System.out.println("----------"); System.out.print(s); } } }