reading line in bufferedReader

Question

From the javadoc

public String readLine()
            throws IOException

Read a line of text. A line is considered to be terminated by any one of a line feed ('\n'), a carriage return ('\r'), or a carriage return followed immediately by a linefeed. 

I have following kind of text :

Now the earth was formless and empty.  Darkness was on the surface
of the deep.  God's Spirit was hovering over the surface
of the waters.

I am reading lines as:

 while(buffer.readline() != null){
       }

But, the problem is it is considering a line for string upto before newline.But i would like to consider line when string ends with .. How would i do it?

Answer 1

You can use a Scanner and set your own delimiter using useDelimiter(Pattern).

Note that the input delimiter is a regex, so you will need to provide the regex \. (you need to break the special meaning of the character . in regex)

Answer 2

You can read a character at a time, and copy the data to a StringBuilder

Reader reader = ...;
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
int ch;
while((ch = reader.read()) >= 0) {
    if(ch == '.') break;
    sb.append((char) ch);
}