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    Efficient Text File parser

    Hi,

    I was wondering if I could get some advice on the most efficient way I can parse a text file which contains the following pair:

    <String LABEL:> Paragraph

    For example:

    PAGENUMBER: 1
    TEXT: text with multiple lines
    TEXT: some more text
    PAGENUMBER: 2 TEXT: random te:xt here with colon just to add some spice
    PAGENUMBER: 3

    I was wondering what might be the best way to do this: I could tokenize on ":" but only if it matches with a specific label like TEXT or PAGENUMBER.

    Thank you for your help,
    Jack Higgins.

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    Re: Efficient Text File parser

    I was wondering if I could get some advice on the most efficient way I can parse a text file which contains the following pair
    That all depends what you mean by "most efficient".

    I was wondering what might be the best way to do this:
    If you know for sure that the label is at the beginning of the line and is always followed by a colon then read in the file a line at a time and for each line either use a regex to split the line or call the string's indexOf(':') method to find the index of the first colon and then use the substring() method to split the string at this index.
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    Re: Efficient Text File parser

    Thanks Keang.

    I guess the problem is that the label with the colon might not always be on a new line.


    Jack.

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    Re: Efficient Text File parser

    You need to have some way of identifying the label or the task is impossible.
    If the label is not necessarily at the beginning of a line then what is the identification criteria?
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