Begin the reading of a file from a specific line

Question

i have a file similaire to this : ...

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Answer 1

Your example code is quite far off, and I don't intend to rewrite all of your code, I will give you some pointers though. You are already doing:

if (strLine.startsWith("export") && !strLine.contains("$"))

This is your conditional that should be testing for the "HDK1001" string instead of whatever it's doing right now. I'm not sure why you are checking for the word "export" when it seems like it doesn't matter for your program.

There isn't a way to just magically start and end at specific words in the file, you MUST start at the beginning and go line by line checking all of them until you find your desired first and last line. Once you find that first line, you can continue reading until you reach your desired end line and then bail out.

Answer 2

this is pseudo code that follows the kind of logic you would want to be able to accomplish this task.

flag = false
inside a loop
{
 read in a line
 if( line != #############HDK1001############# && flag == false){  //check to see if you found your starting place
    nothing useful here. lets go around the loop and try again

  else // if i found it, set a flag to true
     flag = true;

  if( flag == true) // am i after my starting place but before my end place?
  {
    if( line == #############HDK1001#############) 
       do nothing and go back through the loop, this line is not useful to us

    else if( line ==  #############HDK7564#############) //did i find my end place?
      flag = false // yes i did, so lets not be able to assign stuff any more

    else // im not at the start, im not at the end. I must be inbetwee. lets read the data and assign it. 
      read in the lines and assign it to variables that you want
 }

Answer 3

try this code.

public static HashMap<String, String> getEnvVariables(String scriptFile,
            String config) {
        HashMap<String, String> vars = new HashMap<String, String>();
        BufferedReader br = null;
        try {
            FileInputStream fstream = new FileInputStream(scriptFile);
            br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(fstream));
            String strLine = null;
            String stopvar = "HDK7564";
            String startvar = "HDK1001";
            String keyword = "export";
            do {
                if (strLine != null && strLine.contains(startvar)) {
                    if (strLine.contains(stopvar)) {
                        return vars;
                    }
                    while (strLine != null && !strLine.contains(stopvar)) {
                        strLine = br.readLine();
                        if (strLine.startsWith(keyword)) {
                            strLine = strLine.substring(keyword.length())
                                    .trim();
                            String[] split = strLine.split("=");
                            String name = split[0];
                            String value = split[1];
                            System.out.println(name + "=" + value);
                            vars.put(name, value);
                        }
                    }
                }
            } while ((strLine = br.readLine()) != null);
        } catch (Exception e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
        return vars;
    }