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Hello.
In my application, I need to store the text of an HTML page.
For example:
<!DOCTYPE ht....
....
....
</HTML>
I modify it after, to create a new HTML page that I open in a web
browser.
I would like to store this text in my application without creating a
file on the hard disc.
I want to keep line feeds and there are many " in the text.
Is there a way of storing this text and how?
thank you.

JCD <> writes:
>Is there a way of storing this text and how?

Yes, usually as an object of any class implementing
java.lang.CharSequence or as an array of code points.

Text also can be stored as an object of java.lang.BigDecimal
or so, but this would be unusual and more difficult to use.

On May 28, 1:40*pm, JCD <jcd.n...@club-internet.fr> wrote:
> Hello.
> In my application, I need to store the text of an HTML page.
> For example:
> <!DOCTYPE ht....
> ...
> ...
> </HTML>
> I modify it after, to create a new HTML page that I open in a web
> browser.
> I would like to store this text in my application without creating a
> file on the hard disc.
> I want to keep line feeds and there are many " in the text.
> Is there a way of storing this text and how?
> thank you.

Why do you think you need to keep it in a file on the hard disc?
Normally, getting HTML data from an internet source would result in
the HTML data being stored into some sort of in-memory structure, such
as as String. Writing that to disc seems like it would be extra work.
You say you have to modify the HTML data... what sort of
modifications? If they're fairly simple, you could just use regular
expressions to find/replace substrings in the big string. For
complicated modifications, maybe build a tree out of the HTML nodes,
modify the tree, then turn your tree back into a string.

Lord Zoltar <> wrote in news:c1675928-4d26-4753-af9b-
:

> On May 28, 1:40*pm, JCD <jcd.n...@club-internet.fr> wrote:
>> Hello.
>> In my application, I need to store the text of an HTML page.
>> For example:
>> <!DOCTYPE ht....
>> ...
>> ...
>> </HTML>
>> I modify it after, to create a new HTML page that I open in a web
>> browser.
>> I would like to store this text in my application without creating a
>> file on the hard disc.
>> I want to keep line feeds and there are many " in the text.
>> Is there a way of storing this text and how?
>> thank you.
>
> Why do you think you need to keep it in a file on the hard disc?
> Normally, getting HTML data from an internet source would result in
> the HTML data being stored into some sort of in-memory structure, such
> as as String. Writing that to disc seems like it would be extra work.
> You say you have to modify the HTML data... what sort of
> modifications? If they're fairly simple, you could just use regular
> expressions to find/replace substrings in the big string. For
> complicated modifications, maybe build a tree out of the HTML nodes,
> modify the tree, then turn your tree back into a string.
>

1st thing that came to my mind, is that he wants to create a man-in-the-
middle, editing html between a website and a browser. And not wanting to
leave traces on the disk, so that some kind of an antivirus might be able
scan it.

Of course thats funny, but it popped to my mind.

On Wed, 28 May 2008 10:40:36 -0700 (PDT), JCD
<> wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone
who said :

>I would like to store this text in my application without creating a
>file on the hard disc.

The two most likely ways are with a simple giant String and a parse
tree.

Unfortunately most of the stuff out on the web is malformed. Usually
the only stuff you can fully parse is stuff you validated yourself.

see http://mindprod.com/jgloss/parser.html
--

Roedy Green Canadian Mind Products
The Java Glossary
http://mindprod.com

JCD wrote:

> I would like to store this text in my application without creating a
> file on the hard disc.

A file on disc probably would be the best way. Look into JSP.

Absent that, no, I don't know of any type of convenient storage
mechanism. A resource file would be good, but it's basically a file on
disc anyway. A property would likely be wildly inappropriate, unless
the string you are storing is very short.

Actually, I don't want to get HTML data from an internet source : I
already have the source code and the modifications are very simple : I
only have to change a few lines that depend on the results of my
application. I don't need to create a tree or a parser: I want to
store in my java code source this HTML text. The problem is that the
text is very long and it contains many " and many line feeds.
Of course, I could create for example an array containing each line of
the HTML page but it would be too long to write.
Is there a way of storing a giant String with " and line feeds?

JCD wrote:
> Actually, I don't want to get HTML data from an internet source : I
> already have the source code and the modifications are very simple : I
> only have to change a few lines that depend on the results of my
> application. I don't need to create a tree or a parser: I want to
> store in my java code source this HTML text. The problem is that the
> text is very long and it contains many " and many line feeds.
> Of course, I could create for example an array containing each line of
> the HTML page but it would be too long to write.
> Is there a way of storing a giant String with " and line feeds?

You can store " and line feeds in a String object. No problem there.
Phil

Philipp wrote:
> JCD wrote:
>> Actually, I don't want to get HTML data from an internet source : I
>> already have the source code and the modifications are very simple : I
>> only have to change a few lines that depend on the results of my
>> application. I don't need to create a tree or a parser: I want to
>> store in my java code source this HTML text. The problem is that the
>> text is very long and it contains many " and many line feeds.
>> Of course, I could create for example an array containing each line of
>> the HTML page but it would be too long to write.
>> Is there a way of storing a giant String with " and line feeds?
>
> You can store " and line feeds in a String object. No problem there.
> Phil

Java string constants cannot span multiple lines. Java has no equivalent
of the "here document" in Shell or Perl. Sometimes I miss these features.

static final String HTML = "
<html>
<head>
...
</body>
</html>
";

String html = <<END;
<html>
<head>
...
</body>
</html>
END

The Java-ish solution seems to be properties files.

--
RGB

RedGrittyBrick wrote:
> Philipp wrote:
>> JCD wrote:
>>> Actually, I don't want to get HTML data from an internet source : I
>>> already have the source code and the modifications are very simple : I
>>> only have to change a few lines that depend on the results of my
>>> application. I don't need to create a tree or a parser: I want to
>>> store in my java code source this HTML text. The problem is that the
>>> text is very long and it contains many " and many line feeds.
>>> Of course, I could create for example an array containing each line of
>>> the HTML page but it would be too long to write.
>>> Is there a way of storing a giant String with " and line feeds?
>>
>> You can store " and line feeds in a String object. No problem there.
>
> Java string constants cannot span multiple lines.

Yep. I didn't understand the OP's request correctly.

At this point I can only recommend to use a decent text editor (eg. try
textpad.com) and replace all newline characters by \n (or its
crossplatform equivalent) and every " by a \"

For example,
String s = "hello \n\"world\"";

Phil