Java tutorial
import java.io.FileInputStream; import java.io.IOException; import java.nio.ByteBuffer; import java.nio.CharBuffer; import java.nio.channels.FileChannel; import java.nio.charset.Charset; import java.util.regex.Matcher; import java.util.regex.Pattern; public class Main { public static CharSequence fromFile(String filename) throws IOException { FileInputStream fis = new FileInputStream(filename); FileChannel fc = fis.getChannel(); // Create a read-only CharBuffer on the file ByteBuffer bbuf = fc.map(FileChannel.MapMode.READ_ONLY, 0, (int) fc.size()); CharBuffer cbuf = Charset.forName("8859_1").newDecoder().decode(bbuf); return cbuf; } public static void main(String[] argv) throws Exception { // Create matcher on file Pattern pattern = Pattern.compile("pattern"); Matcher matcher = pattern.matcher(fromFile("infile.txt")); // Find all matches while (matcher.find()) { // Get the matching string String match = matcher.group(); } } }