[java] Method to find string inside of the text file. Then getting the following lines up to a certain limit

So this is what I have so far :

public String[] findStudentInfo(String studentNumber) {
                Student student = new Student();
                Scanner scanner = new Scanner("Student.txt");
                // Find the line that contains student Id
                // If not found keep on going through the file
                // If it finds it stop
                // Call parseStudentInfoFromLine get the number of courses
                // Create an array (lines) of size of the number of courses plus one
                // assign the line that the student Id was found to the first index value of the array
                //assign each next line to the following index of the array up to the amount of classes - 1
                // return string array
}

I know how to find if a file contains the string I am trying to find but I don't know how to retrieve the whole line that its in.

This is my first time posting so If I have done anything wrong please let me know.

I am doing something similar but in C++. What you need to do is read the lines in one at a time and parse them (go over the words one by one). I have an outter loop that goes over all the lines and inside that is another loop that goes over all the words. Once the word you need is found, just exit the loop and return a counter or whatever you want.

This is my code. It basically parses out all the words and adds them to the "index". The line that word was in is then added to a vector and used to reference the line (contains the name of the file, the entire line and the line number) from the indexed words.

ifstream txtFile;
txtFile.open(path, ifstream::in);
char line[200];
//if path is valid AND is not already in the list then add it
if(txtFile.is_open() && (find(textFilePaths.begin(), textFilePaths.end(), path) == textFilePaths.end())) //the path is valid
{
    //Add the path to the list of file paths
    textFilePaths.push_back(path);
    int lineNumber = 1;
    while(!txtFile.eof())
    {
        txtFile.getline(line, 200);
        Line * ln = new Line(line, path, lineNumber);
        lineNumber++;
        myList.push_back(ln);
        vector<string> words = lineParser(ln);
        for(unsigned int i = 0; i < words.size(); i++)
        {
            index->addWord(words[i], ln);
        }
    }
    result = true;
}

Here is a java 8 method to find a string in a text file:

for (String toFindUrl : urlsToTest) {
        streamService(toFindUrl);
    }

private void streamService(String item) {
        try (Stream<String> stream = Files.lines(Paths.get(fileName))) {
           stream.filter(lines -> lines.contains(item))
                       .forEach(System.out::println);

        } catch (IOException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }

This will find "Mark Sagal" in Student.txt. Assuming Student.txt contains

Student.txt

Amir Amiri
Mark Sagal
Juan Delacruz

Main.java

import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.FileReader;
import java.util.ArrayList;

public class Main {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        final String file = "Student.txt";
        String line = null;
        ArrayList<String> fileContents = new ArrayList<>();

        try {
            FileReader fReader = new FileReader(file);
            BufferedReader fileBuff = new BufferedReader(fReader);
            while ((line = fileBuff.readLine()) != null) {
                fileContents.add(line);
            }
            fileBuff.close();
        } catch (Exception e) {
            System.out.println(e.getMessage());
        }
        System.out.println(fileContents.contains("Mark Sagal"));
    }
}

When you are reading the file, have you considered reading it line by line? This would allow you to check if your line contains the file as your are reading, and you could then perform whatever logic you needed based on that?

Scanner scanner = new Scanner("Student.txt");
String currentLine;

while((currentLine = scanner.readLine()) != null)
{
    if(currentLine.indexOf("Your String"))
    {
         //Perform logic
    }
}

You could use a variable to hold the line number, or you could also have a boolean indicating if you have passed the line that contains your string:

Scanner scanner = new Scanner("Student.txt");
String currentLine;
int lineNumber = 0;
Boolean passedLine = false;
while((currentLine = scanner.readLine()) != null)
{
    if(currentLine.indexOf("Your String"))
    {
         //Do task
         passedLine = true;
    }
    if(passedLine)
    {
       //Do other task after passing the line.
    }
    lineNumber++;
}

Using the Apache Commons IO API https://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-io/ I was able to establish this using FileUtils.readFileToString(file).contains(stringToFind)

The documentation for this function is at https://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-io/javadocs/api-2.4/org/apache/commons/io/FileUtils.html#readFileToString(java.io.File)

Here is the code of TextScanner

public class TextScanner {

        private static void readFile(String fileName) {
            try {
              File file = new File("/opt/pol/data22/ds_data118/0001/0025090290/2014/12/12/0029057983.ds");
              Scanner scanner = new Scanner(file);
              while (scanner.hasNext()) {
                System.out.println(scanner.next());
              }
              scanner.close();
            } catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
              e.printStackTrace();
            }
          }

          public static void main(String[] args) {
            if (args.length != 1) {
              System.err.println("usage: java TextScanner1"
                + "file location");
              System.exit(0);
            }
            readFile(args[0]);
      }
}

It will print text with delimeters