Parsing Text file
 

Alright, This is really bothering me that I can't figure this out since I took 3 terms of Java.

Alright, I have a text file that contains addresses.

ex:
Name
1234 5th St
Orlando, Fl 19191

Name2
1423 4th ave
New York, NY 09987

and so on and so on.

Originally I was trying to have it take each line and put it into an 2d array.

addyArray[addyIndex][lineOfAddy].

I could not figure out how to make a linebreak (gap) be the delimiter to separate the values.

Most of the addresses will be 3lines, but I wanted the expandability of being able to handle 4 line addies.

Can anyone help me with this? If you need more details either post in here or email me at nscelica@yahoo.com.

Thanks

Re: Parsing Text file
 

You can try the StringTokenizer which allows special delimeters. Also, I'm not sure a 2D array is the best way to go, but can't say for a fact that it's not. If you post your parsing code we could probably help more.

Re: Parsing Text file
 

import cs1.Keyboard;

import java.util.*;

import java.io.*;

public class PrintAddresses

{

        public static void main (String[] args) throws IOException

        {

                String [][] addyArray = new String[50][4];

                for (int j=0; j<50; j++)

                {

                        for (int k=0; k<4; k++)

                        {

                                addyArray[j][k] = "\n";

                        }

                }

//                FileWriter outFile = new FileWriter ("results.txt");

//                PrintWriter out = new PrintWriter(outFile);

                FileReader inFile = new FileReader (args[0]);

                BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader (inFile);

                String line = "";

                int i = 0, a = 0;

                while(in.ready())

                {

                        line = in.readLine();

                        while (line != null && line != "\n")

                        {

                                addyArray[i][a] = line;

                                line = in.readLine();

                                a++;

                                if (line == null) line = "\n";

                        }

                        i++;

                        a = 0;

                }

                for(int j=0; j<3; j++)

                {

                        for(int k=0;k<4;k++)

                        {

                                System.out.println((j+1) + "-" + (k+1) + " " + addyArray[j][k]);

                        }

                }

        }

}