How do I manage this data?

I'm creating a quiz where I am presented with a random question then when I press something the answer appears.

So I want to read in a file full of questions and answers.

questions start with q: and answers start with a:.

now I could quite easily create two arrays and the element indexes would line up appropriately... then I can use that data in my quiz.

but what if I don't have a one-to-one relationship?

what if my file is like this

Q: questionOne
A: answer1/1
Q: questionTwo
A1: answer1/3
A2: answer2/3
A3: answer3/3

if more than one answer can be associated with a question then my arrays obviously wont work... how do I read in a file like this and keep the information for each question?

thanks

One solution could be a two-dimensional array, so:

Code:

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String[][] answers = new String[2][5];

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Java is an object oriented language. Parallel arrays are a symptom of object denial.

Create a Question class that holds an array or java.util.List of answers.

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