If i have a file which contains some data..and say that i want to assign the values of every other line in the file to an arraylist of objects. How do you do it please? Thanx in advance...
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How to assign values from a file to an arraylist of objects?
If i have a file which contains some data..and say that i want to assign the values of every other line in the file to an arraylist of objects. How do you do it please? Thanx in advance...
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Re: How do you Assign lines of a file to an aaraylist
Hello nadman123.
Welcome to the Java Programming Forums!
What type of file are you talking about? Is it a .txt file?
To start, id read in the file line by line. You can find out exactly how to do this here:
http://www.javaprogrammingforums.com...line-line.html
You can then add the strLine String to an arraylist.
Have you coded anything so far? Please post what you have here and we will help you fill in the gaps.
If not, post an example of the data file and I will see what I can do.
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Re: How do you Assign lines of a file to an aaraylist
Thanx for the reply..this is what I want to do....I have a file which is called "students.dat" and in this file it contains some data about students...and this file kind of looks like this..Originally Posted by JavaPF
the first line says 5 which is the amount of student records in the file...there is the name an ID, address, and phone number there is a student class as well..what i want to do is to create an arraylist of objects from the above file...hope you get this...5
John Smith
19999999
100 Dandenong Road, Caulfield East, Vic 3145
+61-3-99112233
Chris Wong
90123456
4/6 Melrose Place, Melbourne, Vic 3000
+61-3-98765432
Paris Hilton
12345678
600, Hilton Hotel, Melbourne, Vic 3000
+61-3-64662322
Andy Marks
18888888
10, Brooks Lane, Melbourne, Vic 3000
+61-3-99031234
John Doe
17654321
9123, Bourke Street, North Melbourne, Vic 3051
+61-3-56728324
In the student class there are methods called setName, getName, setAddress, getAddres...and so on..you know the accessors and mutators with default constructor and the constructor...
I know how to create an arraylist not from a file though.
like
private ArrayList<Student> students; students = new ArrayList<Student>(); generateStudents(); private void generateStudents(){ students.add(new Student("John Smith", "19999999","100 Dandenong Road, Caulfield East, Vic 3145","0-99112233" )); ............. ............ ........... so on..... }
thanx in advance...
Re: How do you Assign lines of a file to an aaraylist
This should get you started..
The code below will read in a file line by line and grab the first line which tells you the number of students. You just need to add the ArrayList & methods.
import java.io.BufferedReader; import java.io.FileInputStream; import java.io.InputStreamReader; import java.util.ArrayList; public class Class1 { public static int numberOfStudents; public static void main(String[] args) { try { FileInputStream in = new FileInputStream("students.txt"); BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(in)); String strLine; //Read first line to isolate the number of students & convert String to int. String strNumberOfStudents = br.readLine(); int numberOfStudents = Integer.parseInt(strNumberOfStudents); //Print number of students first line. System.out.println(numberOfStudents); while((strLine = br.readLine())!= null) { // Print each line. Put arraylist add here System.out.println(strLine); } }catch(Exception e){ System.out.println(e); } } }
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