Extracting Words from a text file

[Hunt John]

Hello everyone.
i have a heavy text file (200 lines )from which i would like to extract special information .For exampe let's suppose that the text file contains only this line:

<< Mr John is a single man he lives in alabama his phone number is 1111111111111 >>
My goal is to extract just the phone number .Any help ?
Thank you

[moizpalitanawala]

String s="<< Mr John is a single man he lives in alabama his phone number is 1111111111111 >>";
 
        int i=0;
        char ch;
        String temp="";
        while(i<s.length())
        {
            ch=s.charAt(i++);
            if((ch>='0'&&ch<='9')||ch=='+')
            {
                while((ch>='0'&&ch<='9')||ch=='+'||ch=='-'||ch==' ')
                {
                    temp+=ch;
                }
                temp+="\n";
            }
        }
        System.out.println(temp);

[dlite922]

Use regex with Pattern.compile() and Matcher. (Read javadoc)

If you can't create a pattern in regex for the phone number you cannot extract it. (i.e. if the samples are not in any consistent format/position/length, it could be difficult)


Dan