split method question

[Chasingxsuns]

I have a file that contains

1 2 3
4 5 6
7 8 9

I have a scanner that reads it, puts it into a String, and then attempts to use the split method to tokenize it. The problem is that it isn't counting \n as a delimiter.

try {
            Scanner scan = new Scanner(theFile);
            while(scan.hasNextLine()) {
                n++;
                stringForm += scan.nextLine();
            }   //end while

            //make array
            square = new int[n][n];
            //put ints into array
            String[] tokens = stringForm.split("\\s");
            for(int i=0;i<tokens.length;i++) {  //loop through array
                    for(int rowN=0;rowN<n;rowN++) {
                        for(int colN=0;colN<n;colN++) {
                            System.out.println(tokens[i]);
                            square[rowN][colN] = Integer.parseInt(tokens[i]);   //initialize array

That is the relevant code. I was under the impression \\s would cover all whitespace which includes \n. Can anyone help me?

[r035198x]

The \n are no longer there anyway, try

stringForm += scan.nextLine()+" ";

to see what happens.

[ocean]

I split my whitespace with

 String[] tokens = stringForm.split(" ");

But mabey thats wrong aint that old at java.

[Chasingxsuns]

stringForm += scan.nextLine() + " ";

using this worked. I did not know nextLine() consumes \n. The space afterwards works to separate new lines. Thanks.