Scanner Bug?

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Date:
Wed, 30 Dec 2009 10:09:32 -0800
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Hi all,

The following code demonstrates a bug in the java.util.Scanner class, I
think. It creates a large file, then attempts to read in the same file
with a Scanner using a delimiter of "\z".

This doesn't work. Only a part of the file is read (the first 1024
bytes). The result is that the comparison operation fails. I can
manually inspect the file created and it does have the correct number of
strings -- 16384. This code finds the last string at number 284.

Am I doing something wrong? Or should I report this to Sun?

<output>
run:
fileContents.length()=1024
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.RuntimeException: Result was: 28,
expected 283
         at scannerbug.ScannerBug.testContents(ScannerBug.java:55)
         at scannerbug.ScannerBug.main(ScannerBug.java:30)
Java Result: 1
BUILD SUCCESSFUL (total time: 0 seconds)
</output>

<sscce>

package scannerbug;

import java.io.BufferedWriter;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileWriter;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.Scanner;

public class ScannerBug
{

     private static final String FILE = "test.txt";
     private static final int TEST_FILE_SIZE = 16 * 1024;

     public static void main( String[] args )
             throws Exception
     {
         makeTestSource( FILE );
         String fileContents = new Scanner( new File( FILE ) ).useDelimiter(
                 "\\z" ).next();
         System.err.println( "fileContents.length()=" +
fileContents.length() );
         testContents( fileContents );
     }

     private static void makeTestSource( String string )
             throws IOException
     {
         BufferedWriter bw = new BufferedWriter( new FileWriter( string ) );
         for( int i = 0; i < TEST_FILE_SIZE; i++ )
         {
             bw.write( Integer.toString( i ) );
             bw.write( '\n' );
         }
         bw.close();
     }

     private static void testContents( String string )
     {
         Scanner scanner = new Scanner( string );
         for( int i = 0; i < TEST_FILE_SIZE; i++ )
         {
             if( scanner.hasNextInt() )
             {
                 int result = scanner.nextInt();
                 if( i != result )
                 {
                     throw new RuntimeException( "Result was: " + result
                             + ", expected " + i );
                 }
             }else
             {
                 throw new RuntimeException(
                    "Ran out of ints in string at pos "
                         + i );
             }
         }
     }
}
</sscce>

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