Question

Here’s the code that I’ve worked upon:

while ((lineContents = tempFileReader.readLine()) != null)
{
            String lineByLine = lineContents.replaceAll("/\\.", System.getProperty("line.separator")); //for matching /. and replacing it by new line
            changer.write(lineByLine);
            Pattern pattern = Pattern.compile("\\r?\\n"); //Find new line
            Matcher matcher = pattern.matcher(lineByLine);
            while(matcher.find())
            {
                Pattern tagFinder = Pattern.compile("word"); //Finding the word required
                Matcher tagMatcher = tagFinder.matcher(lineByLine);
                while(tagMatcher.find())
                {
                    score++;
                }
                scoreTracker.add(score);
                    score = 0;
            }   
}

My sample input contains 6 lines, with occurences of word being [0,1,0,3,0,0]
So when I print scoreTracker (which is an ArrayList) I want the above output.
But instead, I get [4,4,4,4,4,4] which it the total occurence of the word, but not line by line.
Kindly help.

Answer 1

lineByLine points to the entire contents of your file. That is the reason you are getting [4,4,4,4,4,4]. You need to store each line in another variable line and then use tagFinder.find(line).
Final code will look like this

while ((lineContents = tempFileReader.readLine()) != null)
{
    String lineByLine = lineContents.replaceAll("/\\.", System.getProperty("line.separator")); //for matching /. and replacing it by new line
    changer.write(lineByLine);
    Pattern pattern = Pattern.compile(".*\\r?\\n"); //Find new line
    Matcher matcher = pattern.matcher(lineByLine);
    while(matcher.find())
    {
        Pattern tagFinder = Pattern.compile("word"); //Finding the word required
        //matcher.group() returns the input subsequence matched by the previous match.
        Matcher tagMatcher = tagFinder.matcher(matcher.group());
        while(tagMatcher.find())
        {
            score++;
        }
        scoreTracker.add(score);
            score = 0;
    }   
}