Display only certain contents of text file and edit display

**blkshrk81** · 12-01-2010, 06:20 PM

I have a text file with data entered as:

0,Broyles, Frank, 479-575-1964, Football St, Fayetteville, AR, 72703
1,Richardson, Nolan, 479-575-1994, Basketball St, Fayetteville, AR, 72703

I want to display only certain contents of the file in this format to a jlist:

Last name, First name
Phone number
City, State, zip code

How do I do this? It think it would be possible for me to edit the entry of the data to use a delimiter for display, such as a comma. I've fiddled with using a comma delimiter in the scanner class but can't seem to get it to work either.

Java Code:

	private class ViewVidButtonHandler implements ActionListener
	{	
		public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e)
		{
			try
			{
				FileReader a=new FileReader ("video.txt");
				Scanner b=new Scanner(a);
				int arraySize=0;
				while(b.hasNextLine())
				{
					b.nextLine();
					arraySize++;
				}
				String[]c=new String[arraySize];
				a=new FileReader("video.txt");
				b=new Scanner(a);
				int d=0;
				while(b.hasNextLine())
				{
					String f=b.nextLine();
					c[d]=f;
					d++;
					}
				JFrame f=new JFrame("View Videos");
				JList g=new JList(c);
				f.getContentPane().add(g);
				f.setSize(400,400);
				f.setLocationRelativeTo(null);
				f.setVisible(true);
				}
			catch(Exception exception)
			{
				exception.printStackTrace();
				}
			}
		}

Any ideas? Thanks

**Fubarable** · 12-01-2010, 06:35 PM

This might help you: JList can take HTML Strings and will break lines with <br>:

Java Code:

      Vector<String> vect = new Vector<String>();
      vect.add("<html>hello World!<br>WTF???</html>");
      vect.add("<html>Goodbye World!<br>Parting is such sweet sorrow!</html>");
      vect.add("<html>Look ma!<br>I'm on top of the world!!</html>");
      JList jlist = new JList(vect);
      JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, new JScrollPane(jlist));