Read in one linne into several doubles?

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* You will read a line of data with either 1 double with the value -1, 3 doubles, or 4 doubles
* Numbers will be separate with a space, last number terminates with a newline

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So basically, the input is going to be one line, but it could be one double, two, three, or four doubles.

How would I go about reading this input in? It would be easy if i knew there was going to always be 3 doubles, or if i knew there would always be four doubles. but how do i read one line into three doubles if three doubles are inputed into the one line, or only two doubles if only two doubles are inputted etc?

Thanks for the help.

A Scanner object can get doubles for you via the nextDouble method, and more importantly the hasNextDouble will tell you if there are any more double tokens available for scanning, and so you can count your doubles as you scan them in.

Thank you! hasNextDouble is what I needed. I didn't know about it.
I knew how to scan them in.. Just couldn't think of a way to tell it to only scan in more if there are more.

You're welcome. The other option is to use String#split(...) to split the String into tokens and then iterate through the resulting array, parsing to double with Double.parseDouble, as you go. If you did it this way, you may have to trim the Strings in the arrays before parsing.