Crawling the Web with Java - The searchStringMatches() Method
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The searchStringMatches( ) method, shown here, is used to search through the contents of a Web page downloaded during crawling, determining whether or not the specified search string is present in the page:
/* Determine whether or not search string is
present in the given page contents. */
private boolean searchStringMatches(
String pageContents, String searchString,
boolean caseSensitive)
{
String searchContents = pageContents;
/* If case-sensitive search, lowercase
page contents before comparison. */
if (!caseSensitive) {
searchContents = pageContents.toLowerCase();
}
// Split search string into individual terms.
Pattern p = Pattern.compile("[\\s]+");
String[] terms = p.split(searchString);
// Check to see if each term matches.
for (int i = 0; i < terms.length; i++) {
if (caseSensitive) {
if (searchContents.indexOf(terms[i]) == -1) {
return false;
}
} else {
if (searchContents.indexOf(terms[i].toLowerCase()) == -1) {
return false;
}
}
}
return true;
}
Because the search string can be either case insensitive (default) or case sensitive, searchStringMatches( ) starts out by declaring a local variable, searchContents, that refers to the string to be searched. By default, the pageContents variable is assigned to searchContents. If the search is case sensitive, however, the searchContents variable is set to a lowercased version of the pageContents string.
Next, the search string is split into individual search terms using Java’s regular expression library. To split the search string, first, a regular expression pattern is compiled with the Pattern object’s static compile( ) method. The pattern used here, "[\\s]+", states that one or more white space characters (that is, spaces, tabs, or newlines) should be matched. Second, the compiled Pattern’s split( ) method is invoked with the search string, which yields a String array containing individual search terms.
After breaking the search string up, the individual terms are cycled through, checking to see if each term is found in the page’s contents. The indexOf( ) method defined by String is used to search through the searchContents variable. A return value of –1 indicates that the search term was not found, and thus false is returned since all terms must be found in order to have a match. Notice that if the search is case insensitive, the search term is lowercased in the comparison. This coincides with the value assigned to the searchContents variable at the beginning of this method. If the for loop executes in its entirety, the searchStringMatches( ) method concludes by returning true, indicating that all terms in the search string matched.
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