traverse directory search string in files help please

[superdry]

Hi folks,

Im trying to write a program that accepts two input parameters:

1. The string to search for
2. The directory to search in

For each file in the specified directory the program counts the number of times the specified string occurs in the file.
I'm assuming that all the files in the directpry are .text.

 
 //this program searches  a file and returns the number of lines in the file and how many times the searched word is found.
  
  import java.io.*;  
 import java.util.regex.*;  
 public class words 
{  
     	private static void traverse(String directory) 
	 {
		File dir = new File(directory);
                if (dir.isDirectory())
		{
                       String[] children = dir.list();
                       for (int i=0; i<children.length; i++) 
		       {
			     searchPattern(children[i]);
		        }
                 }

         }
 
     public static void searchPattern(String children){ 
        try{  
		File fw = new File(children); 
		System.out.println(fw.exists());  
			
		BufferedReader pw = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(fw));  
		int count = 0;  
		String s = null;  
		System.out.println("Please enter a string to search");
		String sear = Console.readString();
		Pattern p =  Pattern.compile(sear);  
			while((s = pw.readLine()) != null)
			{    
								  
			     Matcher m = p.matcher(s);  
			     if(m.find())
			     {
					count ++;
			      };
								 					   
			}
				System.out.println(count);
						
			}
				
		 catch(IOException e)
			 {  
				 e.printStackTrace();                
			 }  
     
	 }
	 	 
     public static void main(String... args){ 
			System.out.println("Please enter a directory to search");
			String directory = Console.readString();
			
			traverse(directory);
			words f = new words();  
                        f.searchPattern(directory); 
		  }  
 }

I seem to have hit a brick wall, maybe I've been looking at it too long but my java is not that strong anyway. The traverse method works on its own, the search method works on its own but I cant get them to work together or to give me the number of times the string occurs in each file.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Cheers

[Eranga]

What you mean by work them on it's own way?

Simply the logic should be once you find the directory path you've to hang on it until there are no more text files. Once all the file searching is completed, move to the next directory and so on... So where you stuck with? Can you explain a bit more...

[r035198x]

So make your searchPattern method return the number of hits and then you can count the total of hits in all the files in your traverse method.
Better would be to create a SearchResult class that contains the number of hits, the file being searched and any other bits you think necessary. You then build a List of them as you search each in your traverse method which would then a List<SearchResult>.

[Eranga]

Using the File class you can do this easily.