Read file to Array

I suggest that you instead use an list, like arrayList, and fills it with objects that suits your purpose. Like and class Person, which contains getters and setters for the information that you want to store.. Then add that Person object to the list.

First, read 1 row, split it up with stringtokenizer or whatever. Then add each of these to the object Person by using metods like; setName, setStreet and so on.

Secondly, add this object to the arraylist by, list.add(obj);

Perhaps this is to complicated for your use, but if your not doing it like that then your gonna need an 2d array...

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prigas

prigasa at 2007-7-12 3:33:01 >

Okay, I thought you said you knowd that part.. Anyhow I suggest using String.split().

Example:

String s = "Jim X Street 01/01/01 Plumber 20000";

Like this: String array[] = s.split(" ");

Now it should split at each "space" it gets to, then you get the first word by:

String firstWord = array[0];

This is what you wondered right?

prigasa at 2007-7-12 3:33:02 >

Here, I wrote you an complete example.

The only thing you need to do now is write these two rows into an file named file.txt and save it at C:

Jim XStreet 01/01/01 Plumber 20000

Bob YRoad 06/06/90 Doctor 60000

Also if you wanna use spaces at the X and Y, then I suggest that you use something else as an seperator like: ';' or '&' or simular instead of space.

I hope this helps as well as aint to complicated...

The poeple class:

public class People {

private String name;

private String address;

private String birthDate;

private String occupation;

private String Wage;

public String getAddress() {

return address;

}

public void setAddress(String address) {

this.address = address;

}

public String getBirthDate() {

return birthDate;

}

public void setBirthDate(String birthDate) {

this.birthDate = birthDate;

}

public String getName() {

return name;

}

public void setName(String name) {

this.name = name;

}

public String getOccupation() {

return occupation;

}

public void setOccupation(String occupation) {

this.occupation = occupation;

}

public String getWage() {

return Wage;

}

public void setWage(String wage) {

Wage = wage;

}

public People() {

}

}

The HandlingPeopleClass:

import java.io.BufferedReader;

import java.io.FileNotFoundException;

import java.io.FileReader;

import java.io.IOException;

import java.util.ArrayList;

import java.util.List;

public class HandlingPeopleClass {

private List<People> listOfPeople = new ArrayList<People>();

public HandlingPeopleClass() {

readPeopleFromFile();

for(int i = 0; i < listOfPeople.size(); i++) {

People people = new People();

people = (People) listOfPeople.get(i);

System.out.println(people.getName() + " " + people.getAddress() + " " + people.getBirthDate()

+ " " +people.getOccupation() + " " + people.getWage());

}

}

public static void main(String[] args) {

new HandlingPeopleClass();

}

private void readPeopleFromFile() {

People pep = new People();

try {

BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new FileReader("C:\\file.txt"));

String fileLine = br.readLine();

while(fileLine != null) {

String array[] = fileLine.split(" ");

pep.setName(array[0]);

pep.setAddress(array[1]);

pep.setBirthDate(array[2]);

pep.setOccupation(array[3]);

pep.setWage(array[4]);

listOfPeople.add(pep);

fileLine = br.readLine();

}

} catch (FileNotFoundException e) {

e.printStackTrace();

} catch (IOException e) {

e.printStackTrace();

}

}

}

Also all information is as you probably will notic stored in the listOfPeople List. From there you can get all the information you want, its simple to search through it with an forloop comparing names.. Just have a look and I think you get it.

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prigas

prigasa at 2007-7-12 3:33:02 >