Scanner Loop

I need to populate a tree list with the information from a text file. Which I'm able to do but some lines have more than one item in them (could be any number of items on the one line) so how do I get scanner to loop through them for only that line?

for example the file may look like:

Code:

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Character
Profession
Pattern Pattern Pattern
Profession
Pattern Pattern

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and the tree would be

Code:

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Character
    Profession
        Pattern
        Pattern
        Pattern
    Profession
        Pattern
        Pattern

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what I have is this

Code:

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            while(input.hasNext()) {
                    characterName = input.nextLine();
                    character = new DefaultMutableTreeNode(characterName);
                    top.add(character);
                   
                    prof = input.nextLine();
                    profession = new DefaultMutableTreeNode(prof);
                    character.add(profession);
               
                    while(theres another pattern on the line()) {
                                pat = input.next();
                                pattern = new DefaultMutableTreeNode(pat);
                                profession.add(pattern);
                    }
                       
                    prof = input.nextLine();
                    profession = new DefaultMutableTreeNode(prof);
                    character.add(profession);
                   
                    while(theres another pattern on the line()) {
                                pat = input.next();
                                pattern = new DefaultMutableTreeNode(pat);
                                profession.add(pattern);
                    }
            }

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You could use split to get more than one item from a line.

Code:

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Scanner s = new Scanner(//your file);
while(s.hasNext()) {
  String line = s.nextLine();
  String[] items = line.split(" "); //omits whitespaces
  for(int i = 0; i < items.length; i++)
    add(items[i]); //your method for adding strings
}

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Now, I'm not sure about this, I'd have to look at Scanners API, but i think you could also just use Scanners next() method, from a line "one two three" it should return one, then two, then three, but as I said, I'm not sure.

Thank so much for that I managed to get it working :D