Bug Reading txt files

[MHardeman25]

Hey guys, I have a problem. I was just starting to write a simple little game in java to get myself back into a programming mood for the coming semester. I am trying to write a function that will read a text file and output the data into a monstrosity of a data set. a List[2] that contains a List<String> and a List<List>. Don't worry about that last bit, all I want to know is. What is my line reader doing wrong.

here is the text file

[name]
:Monster

[description]
:Monster Faction

[members]
:Rat
:Imp
:Goblin
:Minotaur
:Dragon

[allies]
:Summoner
:Tammer

[enemies]
:Player
:Npc

here is the function

     /*
     * Simple text file reading method.
     *
     * Takes an hopefully valid input file path and uses scanner to read it.
     * This will hopefully make adding new factions as easy as adding a new
     * faction.txt to the factions folder.
     */
    public List[] readTextFile(File file) throws IOException {

        List[] output = new List[2];

        List<String> vars = new ArrayList<String>();

        List<List> vals = new ArrayList<List>();
        List<String> temp = new ArrayList<String>();

        FileInputStream fileStream = new FileInputStream(file);
        DataInputStream dataStream = new DataInputStream(fileStream);
        BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(file));

        String line = "";
        int val_count = 0;

        do {
            System.out.println(line);
            if(line.startsWith("[")){
                line = line.substring(1,line.indexOf("]")-1);
                vars.add(line);
                System.out.println("var");
            } else if(line.startsWith(":")) {
                if(val_count < vars.size()){
                    vals.add(temp);
                    temp = new ArrayList<String>();
                    val_count++;
                    System.out.println("val");
                }
                line = line.substring(line.indexOf(":")+1);
                temp.add(line);
            } else if(line.equals("")){
                System.out.println("blank");
            } else {
                System.out.println("something else happened");
            }
        } while ((line = reader.readLine()) != null);

        output[0] = vars;
        output[1] = vals;

        return output;
    }

here is the output of the function

blank
[name]
var
:Monster
val

blank
[description]
var
:Monster Faction
val

blank
[members]
var
:Rat
val
:Imp
:Goblin
:Minotaur
:Dragon

blank
[allies]
var
:Summoner
val
:Tammer

here is what it should read

blank
[name]
var
:Monster
val

blank
[description]
var
:Monster Faction
val

blank
[members]
var
:Rat
val
:Imp
val
:Goblin
val
:Minotaur
val
:Dragon

blank
[allies]
var
:Summoner
val
:Tammer
val

blank
[enemies]
var
:Player
val
:Npc
val

[MHardeman25]

Yes, I know it's a mess. I am just focused on getting it to work. Is it something to do with the newline character at the end? it seems to want to count many of seperate lines as one line.

[Norm]

Can you explain the difference between what the program does and what you want it to do?
You've posted samples with no explanation.

[MHardeman25]

Ok. The text file is fairly simple. It has a variable name in brackets [] and the value i want to assign to it under it with a : in front. Basically the reader should move through it one line at a time, and see if it starts with a [ or a : Then it adds it to the proper array list.
For most values it seems ok, but it seems to skip some values without doing anything to them.

[Norm]

but it seems to skip some values without doing anything to them

To see why the lines are skipped you need to to debug your problem some more, you should increase the info in println() statements. For example:
System.out.println("var");
should be:
System.out.println("var, line=" + line + "<");
and
System.out.println("line=" + line + "<");

What are the values being skipped? Why are they skipped and not others?

What is the variable: temp used for?