problems on ordinaryChar

[rubyhuang]

why when i using ordinaryChar("! ") in my java file, it still count it as a word.

file = new FileReader(filename);
st = new StreamTokenizer(new BufferedReader(file));
st.ordinaryChar('!');

anyone can help me, thank you.

[Dököll]

Hey there!

I am pretty new to this myself, and thanks for adding code tags... to tell you the truth though, I probably could have helped you if the entire code was posted; not savvy enough to tell what you need to do with just that bit of code. Let's have a look at the whole code..

Rest assured, I'll yell for help for you if I cannot see what you're asking, what I know is peanuts compared to a lot of our folks here, so you're in good hands. Add code in and see what happens.

In a bit!

Dököll

[BigDaddyLH]

By default, ! is an ordinary character, not a word character, so setting it to ordinary char doesn't change anything. Demo:

[CODE=Java]import java.io.*;

public class StreamTokenizer Example {
public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
String data = "abc! def";
test(data, false);
test(data, true);
}

static void test(String data, boolean setOrdinaryChar ) throws IOException {
StreamTokenizer s = new StreamTokenizer (new StringReader(da ta));
if (setOrdinaryCha r) s.ordinaryChar( '!');

for(int token; (token = s.nextToken()) != StreamTokenizer .TT_EOF; ) {
String output = "??";
if (token == StreamTokenizer .TT_WORD) {
output = s.sval;
} else if (token == StreamTokenizer .TT_NUMBER) {
output = String.valueOf( s.nval);
} else if (token == StreamTokenizer .TT_EOL) {
output = "EOL";
} else {
output = String.valueOf( (char)token);
}
System.out.prin tln(output);
}
System.out.prin tln();
}
}[/CODE]