Thread: Can't work out how to read object from .txt file

I need a method that will be able to load the following from a text file and turn them into Book objects:

Harbour:John Lindqvist:horror:2006
Northern Lightshilip Pullman:fantasy:1998
City of Lost Souls:Cassandra Clare:fantasy:2012
Robinson Crusoeaniel Defoe:adventure:1719

The book object has the parameters - String title - String author - String genre - int year(in that order). I can read and save if the title, author and genre are one word each, but I can't work out how to read them if the Strings contain spaces, let alone read the file separating each parameter with the ":".

Can anyone at least let me know which API I should be using to read objects saved in this format.

An example method would be amazing, but I understand if that's too lazy of me. I'm new to this forum.

Thanks heap!!!!

Have you read about the String class? What about the Scanner class?
There are ways to split a string up at a specified string or character. See what some reading can find.