what is tokenizer all about?

[janroz]

can someone help me with tokenizer please? can you give me examples? thanks

[stchman]

The StringTokenizer class has basically been replaced by String's split method.

[janroz]

i have this problem that need to solve this is for the last question i need to solved:
Instructions:
Create a method used to search an employee record from the list of Employee Profiles. You must ask for an employee number as the basis for searching a record. If the employee number exists, display the profile of the employee who owns that employee number. If the record does not exist, display a message to inform the user.

Sample Output: (if the record exists)

Enter Employee ID: 2006-0031
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
EmployeeID : 2006-0031
Lastname : SULLIVAN
Firstname : Jamie
Position : Worker
Rank : 2
Salary Rate : Php 350.00/day







Another Sample Output: (if the record does not exists)

Enter Employee ID: 2006-0000
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Error: Employee not Found!

and this is my code yet.. please help me what is the next step of coding for the this problem.

import java.io.*;
import java.util.*;

class exam {

public static void main(String [] args) {

String fileName = "Employee.txt", line;
String id, fN, lN, rank, pos;
BufferedReader read = null;
StringTokenizer token = null;

try {
read = new BufferedReader (new FileReader(fileName));
line = read.readLine();

while(line != null){
token = new StringTokenizer(line);

fN = getFirstName(token.nextToken());
lN = getLastName(token.nextToken());
id = getID(token.nextToken());
pos = getPosition(token.nextToken());
rank = getRank(token.nextToken());

displayRecord(id, lN, fN, pos, rank);
line = read.readLine();
}
System.out.println("------------------------------------------");

}
catch (IOException e) {
System.out.println("Error in reading the file '" + fileName);
}
}

static void displayRecord(String id, String lN, String fN, String pos, String rank){
System.out.println("------------------------------------------");
System.out.println("Employee ID : "+id);
System.out.println("Last Name : "+lN);
System.out.println("First Name : "+fN);
System.out.println("Position : "+pos);
System.out.println("Rank : "+rank);
}

static String getFirstName(String fN) { return fN; }
static String getLastName(String lN) { return lN; }
static String getID(String id) { return id; }
static String getPosition(String pos) { return pos; }
static String getRank(String rank) { return rank; }






















}

[j2me64]

can you please give an example how the input file looks like with two employees?

[janroz]

can you please give an example how the input file looks like with two employees?

ok sure! it should be like this! the program should ask "Enter Employee ID:" and if i enter ID no. 2006-0031
and then the output should be like this:

EmployeeID : 2006-0031
Lastname : SULLIVAN
Firstname : Jamie
Position : Worker
Rank : 2
Salary Rate : Php 350.00/day

[DarrylBurke]

can you please give an example how the input file looks like with two employees?

ok sure! it should be like this! the program should ask "Enter Employee ID:" and if i enter ID no. 2006-0031
and then the output should be like this:

EmployeeID : 2006-0031
Lastname : SULLIVAN
Firstname : Jamie
Position : Worker
Rank : 2
Salary Rate : Php 350.00/day

:headdesk:

[j2me64]

ok sure! it should be like this! the program should ask "Enter Employee ID:" and if i enter ID no. 2006-0031
and then the output should be like this:

Ok, I got the idea. But I still don't understand why you want to use a tokenizer so I asked for an example that show how the data/records are stored in the input file. My request is still opened.