Hi ,
Can some one let me know if there is any API available for searching files which contain specific words in a particular directory?
My objective is to get the files that contain a string from a directory.In short it should work similar to the windows search which lets you search for files containing specific words
Is there any API available which lets be do this?
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Bulusu
hello,
i have create a program that does what you want.
the program use regular expression for special search. thi is a small part of code.
protected boolean containsWord(File f)
{
Pattern patternText = null;
Matcher matcher = null;
BufferedReader br = null;
String content = null;
try
{
patternText = Pattern.compile(<yourRegularExpression>, 2);
br = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(f));
while((content = br.readLine()) != null)
{
matcher = patternText.matcher(content);
if(matcher.find())
return true;
}
}
catch(Exception e) {}
return false;
}
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