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Ok, thank you very much for your help, I can now get the number with the strategy you have helped me with, I've got it converting to an int also that i can add to a running total.

when i print the string there, the output gives me this [Mary, F, 1234]


if (nextLine.contains(genName)) {

String[] numbers =...

Ok i see how the split method works now, if i make a string like String tosplit = new String(","); and i use it in split, it just puts spaces in the string after the commas? I dont see how that could...

Would something like this work.


if(nextLine.contains(genName)) {

int length = nextLine.length();
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arrays? where are arrays coming into this? you lost me now. and ok i found the method for the string to int conversion. still confused where arrays are coming into play at.. and if i try running my...

So in the java docs i found this

String[] split(String regex)
Splits this string around matches of the given regular expression.

Trying to understand what it means, and how to...

well how i have it set up is what im searching the file for would be like this "Mary,F" and i already have the line that contains that as a string. How does this split method work?

I have a program where a user enters a name and a gender, then the program is suppose to read through all these yob####.txt files to see if it contains that name,gender. if it does, i need to be able...