Newbie help with a file parser

[adlb1300]

I'm new to Java and I'm trying to create a file parser that reads through a text file and outputs certain lines to another text file with tab delimited spaces btween th data. The following is an example of the file I'm trying to parse:

Report: Fake Report for Fake Loans
Report ID: 000001
Run Date: 04/25/2007
----------------------------------------------------------------------
ASC Number Loan ID DelqMessage
033 000101000 N
034 001234875 Y
035 123456789 N

----------------------------------------------------------------------
ASC Number Loan ID DelqMessage
036 741258963 N
037 872563987 N
038 987521455 Y

================================================== ====================

Fake Report Summary:
ASC Total: 6
Loan Total: 6
Total Delq: 2

The output would like the following:

Rundate ASC LoanId Delq Message
4/25/07 031 1234567891 N

When I try to run the program I get the following error:

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: main

Anybody have any suggestions on what I need to do to resolve this error. Below is my current code.

Code:

import java.io.FileReader;
import java.io.FileWriter;
import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.PrintWriter;
import java.io.IOException;

public class FileParse {
	
	private static String[] junkRow;
	
	public void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
         
    	// Variable Declaration
	
	boolean procOn;
	String RunDate = "";
	BufferedReader inputStream = null;
	PrintWriter outputStream = null;
	junkRow =  new String[6];
	
	junkRow[0] = "Report";
	junkRow[1] = "ASC Number";
	junkRow[2] = "Fake Report";
	junkRow[3] = "Loan Total";
	junkRow[4] = "Total Delq";
	junkRow[5] = "ASC Total";
	
	// Following block of cod parses FakeReportToParse.txt and outputs
	// needed portions of the report to characteroutput.txt
	
	try {
	
	 procOn = false;
	   
	   inputStream = 
	   	new BufferedReader(new FileReader("FakeReportToParse.txt"));
	   outputStream = 
	   	new PrintWriter(new FileWriter("characteroutput.txt"));
		
		outputStream.println("Rundate\tASCNumber\tLoan\tDelqMessage");

	   String l;
	   while ((l = inputStream.readLine()) != null) {
	   
	   	  if (l.indexOf("Run Date:") >= 0) {
		  RunDate = l.substring(10);
		  }
		
		  // Processing of report data
		  
		  if(l.indexOf("ASC Number") >= 0) {
			  procOn = true;
		  }
		  
		  if(l.indexOf("---") >= 0 || l.indexOf("===") >= 0) {
			 procOn = false;
			 }
		
		// Output report data to new characteroutput.txt file
		
		 if(procOn) {

			if(!isjunk(l)) {
			String ASC = l.substring(0, 4).trim();
			String LoanID = l.substring(15, 25).trim();
			String DelqM = l.substring(30).trim();
		
			{
     outputStream.println(RunDate + "\t" + ASC + "\t" + LoanID + "\t" + DelqM);
			}
			 }
     }
     }
	} catch(Exception z){
            System.out.println("Error: " + z.toString());
	    }
	    
     finally {
		if (inputStream != null) {
			inputStream.close();
		}
		if (outputStream != null) {
			outputStream.close();
		}
    }
	}
// @return true if it's a junk row
// @return false if it's not

private boolean isjunk(String x){	
	for(int i = 0; i < junkRow.length;i++){
	if(x.indexOf(junkRow[i]) >= 0) {
		return true;
		}
		if(x.trim().length() < 1) {
			  return true;
		  }
	} return false;
}
}

Thanks for your help

[JavaBean]

The definition of main method should be like this:

Code:

public static void main(String args[])

So you forgot static keyword there!

[adlb1300]

Thanks JavaBean. It works.