Txt to ArrayList only prints []

[Quasi Urbane]

Hi I'm new to the forums and I'm having a bit of trouble get the array I created to print correctly. It's supposed to take in the lastName, firstName, gpa, major *and on occassion* concentration. However this array ultimately just displays [] in the resultsArea. Any ideas as to what I'm doing wrong? Any help is greatly appreciated.

import javax.swing.JFrame;
import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.PrintWriter;
import java.util.*;

public class StudentViewer
{
    public static void main(String[] args) throws FileNotFoundException, NoSuchElementException
    {
        File inputFile;
        File outputFile;

        if (args.length >= 1)
        {
            inputFile = new File(args[0]);
            outputFile = new File(args[1]);
            PrintWriter out = new PrintWriter(outputFile);
            int lineNumber = 1;

            Scanner in = new Scanner(inputFile);
            in.useDelimiter("line.seperator");

            ArrayList<AppliedStudent> names = new ArrayList<AppliedStudent>();
            while(in.hasNext())
                try
                {
                    String line = in.next();
                    Scanner lineScanner = new Scanner(line);
                    lineScanner.useDelimiter("\\s*,\\s*");

                    String lastName = lineScanner.next();
                    String firstName = lineScanner.next();
                    double gpa = lineScanner.nextDouble();
                    String major = lineScanner.next();

                    if(major.equals("MAT"))
                    {
                        names.add(new AppliedMath(lastName, firstName, gpa, major));
                    }
                    if(major.equals("ACO"))
                    {
                        String concentration = lineScanner.next();
                        if(concentration.equals("Database") || concentration.equals("Network") || concentration.equals("DigitalMedia"))
                            names.add(new AppliedComputing(lastName, firstName, gpa, major, concentration));
                    }
                    lineNumber++;

                    System.out.println(names); // Trying to test the results, however only [] prints
                }
                catch (InputMismatchException exception)
                {
                    out.println("/* " + lineNumber + " */ " + "This GPA is not a numerical value");
                }
                catch (NoSuchElementException exception)
                {
                    out.println("/* " + lineNumber + " */ " + "No such element exists");
                }
            Collections.sort(names);

            in.close();
            out.close();

            JFrame frame = new StudentFrame(names);
            frame.setTitle("Applied MNS Students");
            frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
            frame.setVisible(true);
        }
        else
            throw new FileNotFoundException("File Not Found");
    }
}

The frame code is here:

import java.awt.BorderLayout;
import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;
import java.awt.event.ActionListener;
import javax.swing.*;
import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import javax.swing.border.*;



public class StudentFrame extends JFrame
{
    private ArrayList<AppliedStudent> student;
    private JCheckBox compBox;
    private JCheckBox mathBox;
    private JButton displayButton;
    private JLabel gpaLabel;
    private JTextField gpaField;
    private JButton searchButton;
    private JLabel resultLabel;
    private JTextArea resultArea;


    private static final int FRAME_WIDTH = 440;
    private static final int FRAME_HEIGHT = 450;


    public StudentFrame(ArrayList<AppliedStudent> names) throws FileNotFoundException
    {
        student = names;

        add(createCheckBoxPanel(), BorderLayout.NORTH);
        add(createDisplayPanel(),BorderLayout.CENTER);
        add(createResultPanel(), BorderLayout.SOUTH);

        setSize(FRAME_WIDTH, FRAME_HEIGHT);
    }

    public JPanel createCheckBoxPanel()
    {
        JPanel checkBoxPanel = new JPanel();
        compBox = new JCheckBox("Applied Computing");
        mathBox = new JCheckBox("Applied Math");
        displayButton = new JButton("Display");
        checkBoxPanel.add(compBox);
        checkBoxPanel.add(mathBox);
        checkBoxPanel.add(displayButton);

        return checkBoxPanel;
    }



    public JPanel createDisplayPanel()
    {
        final int FIELD_WIDTH = 10;
        JPanel displayPanel = new JPanel();
        gpaLabel = new JLabel("GPA: ");
        searchButton = new JButton("GPA Search");
        gpaField = new JTextField(FIELD_WIDTH);
        displayPanel.add(gpaLabel);
        displayPanel.add(gpaField);
        displayPanel.add(searchButton);


        class DisplayListener implements ActionListener
        {
            public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent event)
            {
                resultArea.setText("");
                for(int i = 0; i < student.size(); i++)
                {
                    if(compBox.isSelected() && student.get(i) instanceof AppliedComputing)
                    {
                        resultArea.append(student.get(i).toString() + "\n");
                    }
                    if(mathBox.isSelected() && student.get(i) instanceof AppliedMath)
                    {
                        resultArea.append(student.get(i).toString() + "\n");
                    }
                    if(compBox.isSelected() && mathBox.isSelected() && student.get(i) instanceof AppliedComputing && student.get(i)instanceof AppliedMath)
                    {
                        resultArea.append(student.get(i).toString() + "\n");
                    }
                }

            }
        }
        ActionListener listener = new DisplayListener();
        displayButton.addActionListener(listener);

        class SearchListener implements ActionListener
        {
            public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent event)
            {
                resultArea.setText("");

                try
                {
                    double mean = Double.parseDouble(gpaField.getText());
                    for(int i = 0; i < student.size(); i++)

                    if (mean <= student.get(i).getGPA())
                    {
                        resultArea.append(student.get(i).toString() + "\n");
                    }

                    if (mean > 4.3)
                    {
                        gpaField.setText("");
                        resultArea.setText("");
                        JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, "Please enter a GPA between 0.0 and 4.3");
                    }
                    if (mean < 0.0)
                    {
                        gpaField.setText("");
                        resultArea.setText("");
                        JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, "Please enter a GPA between 0.0 and 4.3");
                    }

                }
                catch (NumberFormatException exception)
                {
                    gpaField.setText("");
                    JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, "Please enter a numerical value");
                }
            }
        }
        ActionListener listen = new SearchListener();
        searchButton.addActionListener(listen);

        return displayPanel;
    }



    public JPanel createResultPanel()
    {
        JPanel resultPanel = new JPanel();

        resultArea = new JTextArea(15, 35);
        JScrollPane pane = new JScrollPane(resultArea);
        resultPanel.add(pane);
        resultPanel.setBorder(new TitledBorder(new EtchedBorder(), "Results"));

        resultArea.setEditable(false);

        return resultPanel;
    }
}

[j2me64]

Hi I'm new to the forums and I'm having a bit of trouble get the array I created to print correctly. It's supposed to take in the lastName, firstName, gpa, major *and on occassion* concentration. However this array ultimately just displays [] in the resultsArea. Any ideas as to what I'm doing wrong? Any help is greatly appreciated.

how does your inputFile looks like? Can you please post it with some test data in it?

[JosAH]

            in.useDelimiter("line.seperator");

What do you think this does? Do you want to use the text "line.delimeter" as an actual delimeter? (the dot is 'any char'). b.t.w. check whether or not the length of args is at least 2.

kind regards,

Jos

[Quasi Urbane]

My text file looks like this:

Trump, Donald, 1.2, MAT
Skywalker, Luke, 3.8, ACO, Database
Jones, Indiana, 4.2, ACO, Network

And so on and so forth. It also contains incorrect entires like MAT with a concentration or ACO without, etc.

I commented out in.useDelimiter and made the arg.length >= 2 but now I don't get any results at all?

[Quasi Urbane]

I just figured it out! I just had to change

String line = in.next();

to

String line = in.nextLine();

and now it works. Thank you guys so much!