Question

I have been researching how to do this and becoming a bit confused, I have tried so far with Scanner but that does not seem to preserve line breaks and I can’t figure out how to make it determine if a line is a line break. I would appreciate if anyone has any advice. I have been using the Scanner class as below but am not sure how to even check if the line is a new line. Thanks

    for (String fileName : f.list()) {

            fileCount++;

            Scanner sc = new Scanner(new File(f, fileName));
            int count = 0;
            String outputFileText = "";

            //System.out.println(fileCount);

            String text="";
            while (sc.hasNext()) {

                String line = sc.nextLine();
            }
}

Answer 1

If you’re just trying to read the file, I would suggesting using LineNumberReader instead.

LineNumberReader lnr = new LineNumberReader(new FileReader(f));
String line = "";
while(line != null){
    line = lnr.readLine();
    if(line==null){break;}
    /* do stuff */
}