I'm trying to read data from a text file that looks something like

United States
155981460
50.28
Indonesia
40829720
16.8
India
38045000
3.24

I need to add all the numbers after each country together. I also need to which country has the highest number in the third line of each set of three.

Any tips would be great.
Thanks in advance.

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What I'm basically trying to do is sum up the number in each second line of the set of three.

This is what I have:

public static void main( String[] args) throws Exception
   {
      File stats = new File("C:\\data.txt");
      Scanner fI = new Scanner(stats);

      int sum = 0;
      
      while(fI.hasNextInt()) {
          sum = fI.nextInt() + sum;
        }
        System.out.println( sum );
        fI.close();

If the data always comes in groups of three lines, read the three lines, process the data for the three lines and then read the next group of three lines.

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