Reading input from a .txt file and then putting it into a array

[BetaDave1877]

Hi I am trying to read in a text file that is

add job Internet with length 6 and priority 4
add job Launchcode with length 3 and priority 3
add job Facebook with length 2 and priority 5
add job explorer with length 1 and priority 2
add job shutdown with length 5 and priority 1

What i have so far is

String[] myarray;
        String fileName;
        FileInputStream in = new FileInputStream("input.txt");
        BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(in));

        String strLine;
        
        myarray = new String[10];

      

            for (int j = 0; j < myarray.length; j++) {
                myarray[j] = br.readLine();
            }
 in.close();
 System.out.print(myarray);

From there i need to extract the name of the job the length and then the priority and put it all into a priority queue. I am tackling this one step at a time and one problem at a time. This is a homework assignment I just need some help, I am not asking for answers. I just don't know how to pull information from a string? Like my plan is to do a for loop to go through each value in my array then another value to pull out the 4th 7th and 9 word from this string and set them name to a string variable and the numbers to integer variables. From there I plan on implementing a Priority queue ADT.

[shall]

I'm not sure if this is the simplest way, but you could use the String Classes indexOf(String str) member function to find the index of the starting of each item your interested in, i.e.

indexOf("with length") and indexOf("and priority").

If the priority is always a single digit, you won't have to use indexOf("and priority"). You can just compute that using indexOf("with length"). In other words, the length and priority can be found by and offset of indexOf("with length"). and of course the job is just a fixed length.

Once you have the index positions you can use substring(int beginIndex, int endIndex) to get the string value. You might have to convert the priority and length to integers using Integer.parseInt( String string ).

[BetaDave1877]

What I am doing is I have a for loop to access a line of my .txt file then I split that string , and then grab the values i need. But thank you for the datatype help I can see me having that question later. I Think I am good for the rest of this until i get to implementing the priority queue. But those problems are probably better suited for a different thread?