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Thread: New person Just trying to read a file of ints

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    Default New person Just trying to read a file of ints

    Hello,
    I am trying to read a simple .txt file of ints into a 2D array. However, the scanner object seems to skip the first few ints. The "scanner.hasNext()" seems to advance the scanner. Please let me know what I am doing wrong. I attached the file "input.txt" Thanks

     
    public int[][] getMatrix(String fileName) 
        {
            int totalrows = 0;
        	int totalcols= 0;
        	int[][] matrix = null;
        	File file = null;
        	Scanner scanner = null;
        	int rowIndex = 0;
        	int colIndex = 0;
     
            try 
        	{
     
        		scanner =new Scanner(new File("input.txt"));
    		} 
        		catch (FileNotFoundException e1) 
        	      {
    			// TODO Auto-generated catch block
    			e1.printStackTrace();
    			System.out.println ("File not found!");
    		    // Stop program if no file found
    		    System.exit (0);
    		}
     
                 while (scanner.hasNext())
    		 {
     
    			 if (scanner.hasNextInt())
    				 totalrows = scanner.nextInt();
    			 if (scanner.hasNextInt())
    				 totalcols = scanner.nextInt();
    			 else
    				 scanner.next();
    		 }
     
                    matrix = new int[totalrows][totalcols];
     
             while (true)
             {
     
    					if (!scanner.hasNextInt() || !(scanner.next() == "\r") || !(scanner.next() == " "))
    						break;
     
    					matrix[rowIndex][colIndex] = scanner.nextInt();
    					rowIndex++;
     
    					if (scanner.next() == "\r")
    					{
    						rowIndex = 0;
    						colIndex++;
    					}
     
     
             }
     
     
     
     
     
             return matrix;
     
     
     
    }
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    Default Re: New person Just trying to read a file of ints

    The hasNext method doesn't advance the read point. However, in the point where you're reading in data, you use the next() method, which will advance the read point.

    A suggestion would be to simply read in the number of integers that should be in that file.

    for (int i = 0; i < totalrows; i++)
    {
         for (int j = 0; j < totalcols; j++)
         {
              matrix[i][j] = scanner.nextInt();
         }
    }

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