I m going through a configuration file with a RandomAccessFile reader I have a configuration option which is one 1 tab away from the start of the line When my reader gets this line would I be able to just tell it to skip one character and then start reading or does the tab character not work that way Example This is a line This line has a tab Let s say I ve loaded the second line into my reader If I m playing with that String and I do currentLine currentLine subString 1 Would that give me currentLine This line has a tab Thanks for your help

Handling the TAB character in Java

Yes the tab character is one character. You can match it in java with "\t".

~ Answered on 2011-05-24 14:57:28