HW help

I have a hw assignment that i have been working on for days and can't figure out what to do. I am reading a text with numbers with the scanner Filereader and i can't figure out how to add the numbers and so on. Here are the instructions i was givin. Any help would be very appreciated.

The program will read the file and then present the user with a menu. The user will then make a menu choice. Be sure to validate the user's input. The user can continue to use the program until the user opts to end the program. Ending the program is a menu choice.

Here is the output:

Make a selection from the list
1. Get the largest value
2. Get the smallest value
3. Get the sum of the values
4. Get the average
5. Get the number of values entered
6. End this program

Enter your choice --> 1
The largest value is 1000

this is what i got so far

Code:

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#                                   
# import java.util.*; 
# import java.io.*; 
# 
# public class Lab5 
# { 
#     
#            static Scanner console = new Scanner(System.in); 
#     
#    public static void main ( String[] args) 
#                                    throws FileNotFoundException 
# 
#                                                                                     
#      { 
# 
#          Scanner inFile = new Scanner(new FileReader("C:\\Random.txt")); 
#           
#          int a; 
#          String menu; 
#           
#            menu = ("Make a selection from the list" + "/n" 
#            +"1. Get the largest value" + "/n" 
#            +"2. Get the smallest value" + "/n" 
#            +"3. Get the sum of values" + "/n" 
#            +"4. Get the average" + "/n" 
#            +"5. Get the number of values entered" + "/n" 
#            +"6. End this program" + "/n" 
#            +"Enter your choice --->" + "/n"); 
#             
#            a = console.nextInt(); 
#           
#            while (inFile.hasNext()) 
#              { 
#                switch (a) 
#                { 
#                  case 1: 
#                   
#                case 2: 
#                     
#                    break; 
#         
#                    case 4: 
#                       
#                    case 5: 
#                       
#                    case 6: 
#                        System.out.print("Goodbye"); 
#                        System.exit(0);// Exit 
#                     
#                    break; 
#                     
#                    default: 
#                      System.out.print("Invalid Option"); 
#                } 
#            } 
#         
#         
#            inFile.close(); 
#        }                                                   
# }

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oh sorry, ya im not sure how to do the operations on the menu options i have with the numbers from the file.

please someone help, i have no idea what to do next and its due soon.

Start with a single step and add to it.
Where does your program read the contents of the file? Is it supposed to read all of the file at once? That will take a loop.

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present the user with a menu

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How is that to be done? Printed to STD output or ?
How will the program get the user's choice?

Add println()s to the code to see the values of variables and to follow the program flow.

yes i have done that so far, here is what i have come up with. it is giving me an error on the while loop i tried to nest in the switch. I can not figure out how to do the math with the numbers from the text

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import java.util.*;
import java.io.*;

public class Lab5
{
       
                        static Scanner console = new Scanner(System.in);
       
    public static void main ( String[] args)
                                                                        throws FileNotFoundException

                                                                                                                                                                       
    {

                Scanner inFile = new Scanner(new FileReader("Random.txt"));
               
                int a;
                int number = inFile.nextInt();
                int sum = 0;
                       
               
                System.out.println("1. Get the largest value");
                System.out.println("2. Get the smallest value");
                System.out.println("3. Get the sum of values");
                System.out.println("4. Get the average");
                System.out.println("5. Get the number of values entered");
                System.out.println("6. End this program");
                System.out.println("Enter your choice --->");
               
                a = console.nextInt();

                  while (inFile.hasNextInt())
                        {if (a <= 6)
                       
                                switch (a)
                                {
                                  case 1: 
                                 
                    case 2:
                                         
                                          case 3:
                                       
                                          while (num != 515)
                                          {
                                                  sum += num;
                                                num = inFile.nextInt();
                                            }
                                        System.out.println("Sum = " + sum);
                                         
                                          case 4:
                                         
                                          case 5:
                                               
                                       
                                          break;
                                       
                                          case 6:
                                                System.out.print("Goodbye");
                                                System.exit(0);// Exit
                                         
                                          break;
                                       
                                          default:
                                          System.out.print("Invalid Option");
                                }
                        }
               
               
                        inFile.close();
          }                                                 
}

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it is giving me an error

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Where did you post the error? I don't see it!

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to do the math with the numbers from the text

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If you are reading in text that consists of numeric digits, you can convert them to int by using a parse method of the Integer class.

Otherwise please explain.

i have figured out the error but it does not need to be parsed. How do i make it return to the beginning of the program so the println menu returns after they perform an option.

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make it return to the beginning of the program

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Sounds like you need a loop. Look at the while statement.