Question

I need to parse a raw text file having a item for each line, and tab-delimited fields.

How can I detect a tab space and next-line markup symbols from a plain text document ? I was thinking to use Java APIs for it… but if you know any faster language and easy to use) for text parsing please let me know

thanks

Answer 1

String str = "Hello\tworld\nHello Universe";
System.out.println(str);
System.out.println(str.contains("\t"));
System.out.println(str.indexOf("\t"));
System.out.println(str.contains("\n"));
System.out.println(str.indexOf("\n"));

Output:

Hello        world
Hello Universe
true
5
true
11