Finding and storing a word from a string builder

[ao241]

Hi all.

Ive created a program that pulls the html from a page that I send it to, the program then stores all of this data in a string builder.

My question is how would I then go about searching this string builder for a specific set of words? When Its found this set of words I'd like to store them as a string so I can compare them to another string.

I've tried looking and playing around with the API of the stringbuilder class, but still havent managed to come up with a solution.

My idea would be to create a for loop and search through then when the string I want is found I would store that, however I just cant seem to workout how to do it.

If anyone has any ideas Id much appreciate them!

Here is my source:

public class Checker
{
    
    private URL appleTreeSeed = null;
    private URLConnection appleTreeSeedConnection = null;
    private BufferedReader appleTreeSeedData = null;
    private StringBuilder appleTreeSeedDataBuilder = null;
    private InputStreamReader appleTreeSeedFeed = null;
    private String nextLine;
    
    
   
    
    public Checker()
    {
    
    establishConnections();
        
    }

    public void establishConnections()
    {
    //Set up the apple tree seeds url and stream the data into the buffered reader.
    try {
        
        appleTreeSeed = new URL("http://services.runescape.com/m=itemdb_rs/Apple_tree_seed/viewitem.ws?obj=5283");
    
        appleTreeSeedConnection = appleTreeSeed.openConnection();
    
        appleTreeSeedFeed = new InputStreamReader( appleTreeSeedConnection.getInputStream());  
        
        
        appleTreeSeedData = new BufferedReader(appleTreeSeedFeed);
        
        appleTreeSeedDataBuilder = new StringBuilder();
        
        
        nextLine = appleTreeSeedData.readLine(); 
        
        while (nextLine != null)
        {
            appleTreeSeedDataBuilder.append(nextLine + "\n");
            nextLine = appleTreeSeedData.readLine();
        }
        appleTreeSeedData.close();
        printData();
        
       
        
        
        
        
        
        
    }
   
    catch(MalformedURLException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
                                   } 
       
                  
    catch (IOException e1) {
        System.out.println("Error in reading data from jagex");
                           }
   
                          
            
    }
    
    public void printData()
    {
        System.out.print(appleTreeSeedDataBuilder.toString());
        
        
        
        
        
        
     }

[Norm]

how would I then go about searching this string builder

Have you read the API doc for the StringBuilder class?
What kind of method do you need that is not there?
Are there better methods in the String class? If so you could convert the StringBuilder to a String and use its methods.

[ao241]

Have you read the API doc for the StringBuilder class?
What kind of method do you need that is not there?
Are there better methods in the String class? If so you could convert the StringBuilder to a String and use its methods.

Thanks,

Ive now worked out how to actualy find the correct text, using indexOf Il now work on storing the data from that string, once again many thanks!

[JosAH]

Oh dear, one of the posters has gone complely bonkers; is there a medical doctor in the audience? Or a butcher ...

kind regards,

Jos