Method to find string inside of the text file. Then getting the following lines up to a certain limit

Question

So this is what I have so far :

public String[] findStudentInfo(String studentNumber) {
                Student student = new Student();
                Scan         


        

Answer 1

When you are reading the file, have you considered reading it line by line? This would allow you to check if your line contains the file as your are reading, and you could then perform whatever logic you needed based on that?

Scanner scanner = new Scanner("Student.txt");
String currentLine;

while((currentLine = scanner.readLine()) != null)
{
    if(currentLine.indexOf("Your String"))
    {
         //Perform logic
    }
}

You could use a variable to hold the line number, or you could also have a boolean indicating if you have passed the line that contains your string:

Scanner scanner = new Scanner("Student.txt");
String currentLine;
int lineNumber = 0;
Boolean passedLine = false;
while((currentLine = scanner.readLine()) != null)
{
    if(currentLine.indexOf("Your String"))
    {
         //Do task
         passedLine = true;
    }
    if(passedLine)
    {
       //Do other task after passing the line.
    }
    lineNumber++;
}