Java BufferedReader Read readFile(String fileName, String commentFlag)

Description

read File

License

Open Source License

Parameter

Parameter	Description
fileName	a parameter
commentFlag	The leading character indicating a line of comment.

Return

The content, preferably plain text, of the file "fileName", with the comments ignored.

Declaration

public static StringBuffer readFile(String fileName, String commentFlag) 

Method Source Code

//package com.java2s;
/*//  ww  w  .j av a2s .  com
 JavaRAP: a freely-available JAVA anaphora resolution implementation
 of the classic Lappin and Leass (1994) paper:
    
 An Algorithm for Pronominal Anaphora Resolution.
 Computational Linguistics, 20(4), pp. 535-561.
    
 Copyright (C) 2005,2006  Long Qiu
    
 This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
 modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
 as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
    
 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
 GNU General Public License for more details.
    
 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
 along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
 Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA  02110-1301, USA.
 */

import java.io.*;

public class Main {
    public static StringBuffer readFile(String fileName) {
        return readFile(fileName, null);
    }

    /**
     * @param fileName
     * @param commentFlag The leading character indicating a line of comment.
     * @return The content, preferably plain text, of the file "fileName", with the comments ignored.
     */
    public static StringBuffer readFile(String fileName, String commentFlag) {
        StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer();
        try {
            BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(fileName));
            String s;
            while ((s = in.readLine()) != null) {
                if (commentFlag != null && s.trim().startsWith(commentFlag)) {
                    //ignore this line
                    continue;
                }
                sb.append(s);
                //sb.append("/n"); to make it more platform independent (Log July 12, 2004)
                sb.append(System.getProperty("line.separator"));
            }
            in.close();
        } catch (IOException ex) {
            ex.printStackTrace();
            System.exit(-1);
        }
        return sb;

    }
}

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