weird problem with println

[crank6015]

hello, i have this weird problem, i built a method to replace all non letter charecters with blank space, when i put small string it works perfectly, but when i put large string into it, it wont print the result (system.out.println), but when i place the method output into txt file, it writes it just fine . but later when i try println from the file it wont print either.

here's the method, maybe you can tell me what i'm doing wrong

public static String clearTokens(String text){
		
		String lowerCase = text.toLowerCase();
		
		StringBuilder buf = new StringBuilder( text );
		

		for(int i = 0 ; i< lowerCase.length() ;i++ ){
			if((lowerCase.charAt(i)< 'a') || ( lowerCase.charAt(i)>'z' )){				
				buf.setCharAt(i,' ');
		     }
						
		}
		
		return buf.toString();		
	}

i need this method to clear special chars from downloaded url.
the input is about 50000 chars

thank you for any help...

[pbrockway2]

If you are running the program from within an IDE it might object to a line 50k characters long.

Eclipse certainly does. The following creates a one line file but nothing appears in the IDE's console.

import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileWriter;

public class StringCleaner {
    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
        StringBuilder buf = new StringBuilder();
        for(int i = 0; i < 50000; i++) {
            char ch = (char)('a' + (i % 26));
            buf.append(ch);
        }
        System.out.println(buf);
        FileWriter out = new FileWriter(new File("c:/longString.txt"));
        out.write(buf.toString());
        out.close();
    }
}

[crank6015]

thanks,
i use eclipse, i tought so to, but the weird thing is, when i try to print the original string with the special chars, it prints it just fine on screen, but when i clean the string with this method, it goes crazy, and wont show me a thing on screen, tried to run it in debug step by step, at first all works fine, but something in the loop makes him go crazy :confused:

thanks for the replay anyway, i think i'll just split the string to array, and run cell by cell :o