Thread: Taking info from a text file, sorting it, save into class arrays and reprinting into new txt file

I'm supposed to write a program in Java . I'm given a text file containing

I am Hakan. My email address is hakan@cs.uh.edu, and what is your name? Hi my name is Tarikul and my favorite email address is tarikul2000@cs.uh.edu

and im suppossed to take tarikul2000@uh.edu and hakan@cs.uh.edu and organize them acording to whether or not they have a subdomain(the "cs" part there other possibilities) or not and store it into class arrays of type Email and UniversityEmail. I'm to then take a user iput of 0-7 and depending on the input print out a different set of info I've created the classes and but i dont know how i can take the info then sort it. The possible subdomains are 1.art 2. chee 3. chem 4. coe 5. cs 6. egr 7. polsci

this is what i have so far if anyone can help me move foward I appreciate it

import java.io.* ;
import java.util.HashSet;
import java.util.Scanner;
import java.io.PrintWriter;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.util.regex.Pattern;
import java.util.regex.Matcher;
 
 
public class Try {
	public static void main(String[] args) {		 
		Email [] storage;// email is a class that was made to store the data
		storage = new Email [99];
		UniversityEmail[] save;
		save= new UniversityEmail[99];
 
		HashSet<String> hs = new HashSet<>();
		Scanner input= null;
		PrintWriter output= null;
		try {
			input= new Scanner("inputemails.txt");
			output= new PrintWriter("outputemails.txt");
 
			}
 
		 catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
			System.out.print("File not found");
			System.exit(0);}
		String line = null;
 
		while(input.hasNextLine())
		{
		fillEmailsHashSet(line, hs);
		}
 
 
 
 
		input.close();
		output.close();
	}
 
 
public static void fillEmailsHashSet(String line,HashSet<String> container){
    Pattern p = Pattern.compile("([\\w\\-]([\\.\\w])+[\\w]+@([\\w\\-]+\\.)+[A-Za-z]{2,4})");
    Matcher m = p.matcher(line);
 
    while(m.find()) {
        container.add(m.group(1));
    }
 
}}

The Email and UniversityEmail are in seperate code chunks i can post if it helps

I'm going to venture a guess that both Email and UniversityEmail have a String variable containing the email. If so then it is a matter of iterating through each element in the UniversityEmail array and checking the aforementioned String variable for a subdomain, based on user input, and then output whatever matches. Another guess here is that if 0-7 is pressed you will output all emails that correspond to the subdomain, or lack there of, associated with the number. Seeing the other classes could help a bit and also I don't see any code for taking user input (is that an issue in itself). Hope some of that helps.

taking user input isnt a problem i jus have gotten around to it yet, i was more concerned with sorting info

here is the Email class

public class Email {
 
	public String username;
	public String email1;
	public String extension;
	public Email()
	{
		//default construntor
 
	}
 
	public Email(String U, String Em , String Ex)
	{
		username =U;
		email1= Em;
		extension=Ex;
 
	}
	public void print()
	{
 
	}
}

and here is the UniversityEmail

public class UniversityEmail extends Email {
 
	public String department;
	public int code;
	public UniversityEmail()
	{//default constructor 
	}
	public UniversityEmail(String U, String Em , String Ex
			, String Dep,int C)
	{super( U, Em , Ex);
	department= Dep;
	code=C;
 
	}
	public void print()
	{
 
	}
 
}

This may seem like a dumb question but I want to be certain. By "sort" are you referring to adding the email to either the Email/UniveristyEmail array or actually sorting those arrays, perhaps by subdomain/alphabetically?
At any rate for the first possibility, take this sudo code:

while(check input text for next line)
    {
        if next line of input contains art, chee, chem...etc then
            extract required info
            add new UniversityEmail to UniversityEmail array
        else if it only has something like the @ symbol then
            extract required info
            add new Email to Email array
    }

As for the second possibility, where you sort by subdomain/alphabetically you would still do the above then manipulate the arrays as needed.

One thing you haven't mentioned is whether or not your code successfully parses the email addresses from the input.

if anyone can help me move foward I appreciate it . . . taking user input isnt a problem i jus have gotten around to it yet

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if anyone can help me move foward I appreciate it . . . taking user input isnt a problem i jus have gotten around to it yet

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By sort i do mean jus puting the info in the appropriate arrays and yes the code for it to print out is

for (String string : hs) {
System.out.println(string);

i had taken it out cause it wasnt part of what i need to turn in

Ok so like the sudo code suggest loop through the input, text file in this case, then parse out the email, check if it contains a subdomain (or not) and place it in the respective array. Once you have given that a shot post the code that you have tried and any problems with it or let us know if all is well.

so ive looked around the web for a way to check the string line and i got

	while(input.hasNextLine())
		{
		fillEmailsHashSet(line, hs);
		if(input.contains("art"))
			{emails[i]=hs.toArray(new String[hs.size()]);
			}
		if(input.contains("chee"))
		if(input.contains("coe"))
		if(input.contains("cs"))
		if(input.contains("egr"))
		if(input.contains("polsci"))
		i++;
 
		}

but i get two errors first that in the input.contains and input.matches
"The method contains(String) is undefined for the type Scanner"
and the second is
Type mismatch: cannot convert from String[] to String
at
{emails[i]=hs.toArray(new String[hs.size()]);}
any idea how to fix this?

also i discovered i dont need to put the emails into arrays of class types but store the class objects in an array