I need to display first word from each line.

[alex1984]

Hey guys I'm using dictionary.txt file and need to display first word from each line so I can then randomly pick 100 of them and find word definitions for it.
I'm having problem with displaying first words, for some reaso I can only display words starting with 'S'.
Here is what I have so far:

public static void main(String args[])
	  {
	  try{
	  // Open the file that is the first 
	  // command line parameter
	  FileInputStream fstream = new FileInputStream("dictionary.txt");
	  // Get the object of DataInputStream
	  DataInputStream in = new DataInputStream(fstream);
	  BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(in));
	  String strLine;
	  //Read File Line By Line
	  while ((strLine = br.readLine()) != null)   {

	      String[] delims = strLine.split("  ");
	      String first = delims[0];
	     
	      for(int i = 0; i < delims.length-1; i++ )
	      {
	    	  System.out.println(delims[i]);
	      }	      
	  }
	  //Close the input stream
	  in.close();
	    }catch (Exception e){//Catch exception if any
	  System.err.println("Error: " + e.getMessage());
	  }
	  }

[chaarmann]

Can you please list the content of the file?
And also the output you get?

By the way,
your for-loop in line 17 is probably wrong: you are skipping the last splitted part.

correct:

          for(int i = 0; i < delims.length; i++ )

Maybe you want to split by a single space, but you are actually splitting by two spaces. So if you don't have 2 spaces in a line, then everything goes into index 0 of the splitting array (which you are skipping to show for some unknown reason as discussed above.)

[alex1984]

There are 2 spaces after each word. The content of the file is dictionary: word, then two spaces and definition (all in one line). I'm not at home right now so don't have access to that dictionary.txt file.

[chaarmann]

If the dictionary.txt file is large, then just copy the first 10 lines from it.
Also, after fixing the for loop as described above, does the problem still exist?