Reading From File

[allaudin]

		File f = new File("F:/" + date + ".txt");
		if (!f.exists()) {
			System.out.println("file not found !");
			System.exit(1);
		}
		int lines = 0;
		@SuppressWarnings("resource")
		Scanner scan = new Scanner(f);
		while (scan.hasNext()) {
			System.out.println(scan.nextLine());
			lines++;

		}
		System.out.println(lines);
		scan.reset();
		int sum = 0;
		int arr[] = new int[lines];
		for (int i = 0; i < lines; i++) {
			arr[i] = Integer.valueOf(scan.nextLine()).intValue();

			sum += arr[i];
		}
		System.out.println(sum);

the date.txt file contains numbers form 1-100, I want to sum and copy them in arr[] but I get noSuchElementException ... Is it why, after counting the lines, the pointers goes to 100th line and then starts form there again??? I have reset the point though ...

[JosAH]

Resetting a scanner does not reset the FileInputStream used (as you could've known by reading the API documentation of the Scanner class). I'd use a List<String> for this purpose though, not a fixed size array ...

kind regards,

Jos

[allaudin]

I was just testing .. ok I will use linke list .. now what should I do to sum those numbers ?

[JosAH]

If all you want to do is sum those numbers, I shouldn't use arrays nor a List<String>; I'd just keep an int sum= 0; ready and add those numbers to it ...

kind regards,

Jos

[allaudin]

how can I reset the pointer ?

[JosAH]

how can I reset the pointer ?

What pointer?

kind regards,

Jos

[allaudin]

file input pointer to the start of the file ...

[allaudin]

thanks I have done it wiht randomAccessFile ... thanks josAh ....

[JosAH]

thanks I have done it wiht randomAccessFile ... thanks josAh ....

Why do you want to read that file more than once? You can read those numbers (and add them) while reading the file ...

kind regards,

Jos

[allaudin]

yes I can ... I was just learning how to read it more than once ..

[gimbal2]

Well simply opening a new FileInputStream also works, although when using a Scanner that would also mean creating a new Scanner. Which functionally makes sense IMO since you want to scan a new file to get fresh data - even if it is the exact same one as the previous time.

[SamJava_the_Hut]

What if you wanted to actually system.out.println the number of lines (along with those) with a method call? Would you use another class to call getter method code like this:

int numberOfLines = 0;

//Loop through the lines of text, reading each line of text and stop when a
//null value is reached (if there is no more lines in the text file, Java
//returns a value of null):
while((aLine = bf.readLine()) != null){
numberOfLines++;//increment a counter called numberOfLines
}
bf.close();//flush the temporary memory buffer called bf
return numberOfLines;//return the number of lines
}

private String getLines(String numberOfLines){
lines = numberOfLines;
return "File has " + lines;
}//end of getLines method


/*
* Because the getLines method has been set to private, we will need to
* add a non-private getter method to pass the number of lines from the
* private numLines method above.
*
* Because this getter method is not private, the method in the
* FileData.java class will call for the number of lines passed into this
* getter method, rather than directly from the private getLines method:
*/
String giveLines(int aLines){
lines = this.getLines();//The this Java keyword "this"
//means "this class", rather than another class that may have the
//same method name. It avoids any confusion.
return lines;
}