Searching for aword in an arraylist

[YASIN786]

I am developing a java program which reads all the sentences from the text file and adds them into an array list and when given a word, lists all those sentences which contain the given word. i can load the sentences into the arraylist and serach for a word but i don have an idea on how to load the whole sentence that contains the word i am searching for

PLS HELP..

[BigDaddyLH]

I am developing a java program which reads all the sentences from the text file and adds them into an array list and when given a word, lists all those sentences which contain the given word. i can load the sentences into the arraylist and serach for a word but i don have an idea on how to load the whole sentence that contains the word i am searching for

PLS HELP..

What do you mean by "load" : "how to load the whole sentence"? It sounds like you know how to do everything required in the assignment.

[hsn]

will think like this.
you have the word in a string . str
you have a sentence in a nother string str2
by doing some search in the java API you can find a function that will see if the str is a sub string of str2.

good luck

hsn

[YASIN786]

What do you mean by "load" : "how to load the whole sentence"? It sounds like you know how to do everything required in the assignment.

Sorry for that. what i meant to say when i mentioned that it should load the whole sentence is this:
when i search for a word in the arraylist of sentences. it should display the sentences which contain the word being searched for.

thanks

[JosAH]

Sorry for that. what i meant to say when i mentioned that it should load the whole sentence is this:
when i search for a word in the arraylist of sentences. it should display the sentences which contain the word being searched for.

thanks

Searching for a String in another String is easy:

[code=java]
String word= ...;
String sentence= ...;
boolean occurs= sentence.indexO f(word) >= 0;
[/code]

If you can do that once you can do it for an entire List of sentences, but is
a 'sentence' just a line of text in a file or is a 'sentence' a linguistic sequence
of words, syntactically correct and ending with a punctuation character? Note
that sentences can span more than one line and more than one sentence can
be present on one line. If that is what you mean by a 'sentence' we have to
come up with a definition of what a 'sentence' actually is.

kind regards,

Jos

[YASIN786]

hi JosAH
thanks for the reply
this is the defintiion of a sentence according to me:
a 'sentence' a linguistic sequence of words, syntactically correct and ending with a punctuation character.
the punctuation character is a full stop.
thanks for the serach code but how do i go about using it so that the whole sentence containing the searched word is loaded in a textbox.

thanks once again.

[r035198x]

hi JosAH
thanks for the reply
this is the defintiion of a sentence according to me:
a 'sentence' a linguistic sequence of words, syntactically correct and ending with a punctuation character.
the punctuation character is a full stop.
thanks for the serach code but how do i go about using it so that the whole sentence containing the searched word is loaded in a textbox.

thanks once again.

You don't use that code for loading into a textbox! The code is for searching for a string. How to "load" a string into a textbox depends on the nature of the textbox. e.g if the textbox is a JTextfield, then you simply do
field.setText(m ySentence);
where field is the JTextfield and mySentence is a string containing the sentence.