max number of consecutive dot in a text file ?

[mlotfi]

I have a text file : electron.txt
I want to count the max number of consecutive dots "." in the above text file,

dot is not a character, how to parse the line string returned from the text file to count dots. ?


please your help is appreciated.
Thanks

[stdq]

Hi, mlotfi. I believe '.' is, or at least can be viewed as, a character. You can access a character at a specified position in a String using the method charAt on the String, sending to the method as an argument the position you want in the String. Some info about this method can be found here: http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs...ng/String.html

[r035198x]

What do you mean by max number of consecutive dots? Do you just mean number of consecutive dots (without the max part)?
If a line contains .... is that counted as one occurrence of consecutive dots or three occurrences ([..]..) , (.[..].), (..[..])?

Depending on what is you are actually looking for, you could use a regex expression for the matching, e.g

 final Pattern p = Pattern.compile("(\\.{2,})");
        final Matcher matcher = p.matcher("...asd.f.....ee.fgfgf");
        while (matcher.find()) {
            System.out.println("found: " + matcher.group(1));
        }