Create votable from sextractor results

Script

import java.io.BufferedInputStream;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.IOException;

String readFileAsString(String filePath) throws java.io.IOException{
    byte[] buffer = new byte[(int) new File(filePath).length()];
    BufferedInputStream f = null;
    try {
        f = new BufferedInputStream(new FileInputStream(filePath));
        f.read(buffer);
    } finally {
        if (f != null) try { f.close(); } catch (IOException ignored) { }
    }
    return new String(buffer);
}

string = readFileAsString(filePath);

Value

Value

Script

import java.io.BufferedInputStream;
import java.io.BufferedWriter;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.FileWriter;
import java.io.IOException;

import java.util.regex.Matcher;
import java.util.regex.Pattern;

resultTable ="#";

	   // read column names from cat file and add header to resultTable
	   String number = "([-0123456789.]+)";
	   String word = "(\\w+)";
    	
	   String expression = "#\\s+"+number+"\\s+"+word+".*"; //  Position x, y

	   Pattern pattern1 = Pattern.compile(expression); 
	   Matcher matcher1 = pattern1.matcher(table);
	   
	   //ArrayList values = new ArrayList();
	   while (matcher1.find()) {
		   
		   String num = matcher1.group(1);
		   String col = matcher1.group(2);
		   //values.add(col);
		   resultTable += " " + col.toLowerCase();
		   
	   	}
	   resultTable +="\n";
	
	   // read data from cat file and add it to resultTable after the header
	   expression = "[^"+Pattern.quote("#")+"]"+Pattern.quote("(")+".*"+Pattern.quote(")"); //  Position x, y
	   expression = "((\\s+"+number+"){4,})" ;//"(.*)"; //  Position x, y

	   pattern1 = Pattern.compile(expression); 
	   matcher1 = pattern1.matcher(table);
	   
	   //ArrayList dataLines = new ArrayList();
	   while (matcher1.find()) {
		   String line = matcher1.group(1);
		   resultTable+=line+"\n";
		   //dataLines.add(line);
	   	}