Searching issue

[RKhadder]

I made a program to search a file for me, however I do not know how to show the findings. The current set up is

[JTextField][Search Button]
[

JTextArea


]

Is there a way to make the data show up in the JTextArea without having to show the whole entire document which consists of over a million lines?

Thanks

[pbrockway2]

You don't say what the program is producing as a result of its search. Supposing that the document is text and you are getting an character index of the start of the match you could extract a portion of the document and display that.

For instance if the text were natural language you could search back and forwards from the match location to locate '.' and display the sentence containing the match. Or you could display the entire line on which the match occurs along with the line number. (If the file is big and you are searching line by line then this latter approach would seem the most natural.) Or there might be some location information embedded in the document itself (like chapter/section/subsection numbers) and you might display the appropriate subsection.

All sorts of display options are possible. Basically you should decide what you want the specifications of your text area to be - what makes sense for your application. And write the code for that.

[hosscomp]

Is there a way to make the data show up in the JTextArea without having to show the whole entire document which consists of over a million lines?

Yes. Call myTextArea.append(finding) where finding is the next String you want to show.

Look up the methods for JTextArea.