}
InputStreamReader iStreamReader = new InputStreamReader( patternFile );
BufferedReader inData = new BufferedReader( iStreamReader );
StreamTokenizer inStream = new StreamTokenizer( inData );
inStream.commentChar( '#' );
inStream.slashSlashComments( true );
inStream.wordChars( '_', '_' + 1 );
try {
// the first entry in the file should be the number of patterns
//token = inStream.nextToken();