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Message:

what a joke

Posted by me on May 17, 2001 at 7:16 AM

ha ha ha ha ha ha

> This is a race, whoever can respond to it faster is the winner.

> Create a simple java program...here is the program:

> Write a program called Find that searches all files specified on the command line and prints out all lines containing a keyword. For example, if you call

> java Find Buff report.txt address.txt Homework.java

> then the program might print

> report.txt: Buffet style lunch will be available at the
> address.txt: buffet, warren | 11801 Trenton Court |
> Homework.java: BufferedReader in

> The keyword is always the first command line arguement.

> Your program should not crash (i.e. generate an unhandled exception), regardless.
> Your program should consider the first command-line input to be the search string, regardless of its format.
> Your program should emit an error message for any file that it can't open, and continue with the next file given in the command line.
> Your program should print a "usage" line if the command-line input is insufficient to allow the program to run.
> Your program may search in a case insensitive or case sensitive way, I don't care.
> Your program should find ALL substring matches, not just whole words.
> Your program should print each line of a file in which it finds a match in its entirety, but should only print such a line once, even if there are multiple matches in the line.