reading files and init and main

kindly break up the question into small chunks, please?

The file is in ascii format unfortunately..what to do???

Well, that will depend on the form of the data. At the simple end of the scale you use the readLine() method of the DataInput, which will give a line of the file in a string. Assuming that contains a single number you then call Integer.parseInt(String l) (or some appropriate equivalent from Float or Double or whatever) and it will hand you the number.

On the other end of the scale you can attach a StreamTokenizer to the inputstream then call its nextToken method, and as long as it reports that the next token is a number (TT_NUMBER) you can find it in nval (I think).

Check up on the docs for whichever one you think you need. If you still have questions, I will need more detail on the form of the input file.

public void readfile() throws IOException
    try {
      fin=new FileInputStream(new File ("C:/WINDOWS/Desktop/Aljava/Project2/airp.dat"));
   }
    catch (FileNotFoundException e){
//****print an error if the file is not available****//
    text[1].setText("File not found");
    return;
  }
   dat = new StreamTokenizer(new FileReader ("C:/WINDOWS/Desktop/Aljava/Project2/airp.dat"));
      while(dat.nextToken()!=dat.TT_EOF) {
            airparr = dat.nextToken();
      }
}
imladris this is my code for this example, every time i run it the value returned is 3 even tough the value I wish is 23.47...I'm lost, I think I need a holiday your help is most appreciated as although it doesn't look like it I think the solution is close at hand! Help me please...airparr is a double value, it will eventually be an array but if I could just get one value being read in properly I would be YEAH happy.


TA

Your almost there. I believe you are in fact getting a negative three returned from nextToken, which is the constant it uses to indicate that the token it found was a number (StreamTokenizer.TT_NUMBER). To get the actual number you can access the instance variable nval. So you get

while(dat.nextToken()!=dat.TT_EOF){
if(dat.nextToken()==dat.TT_NUMBER)airparr=dat.nval;
}

imladris I AM NOT WORTHY.......

while(dat.nextToken()!=dat.TT_EOF){
                  if(dat.nextToken()==dat.TT_NUMBER)
                        airparr=dat.nval;             
            }
imladris i'm back I don't know what is going wrong now I get a value of 4.0 for airparr my file is saved as a w.p 6.1 file with only 1 value in it.....peeved with JAVA

it's 3.0 again......ooh!

W.P 6.1 file? Do you mean a wordperfect file? If so, I wouldn't
use that. Word processors stick all kinds of gnarly stuff in
their files, about fonts and sizes and headers and footers etc.
etc. etc.

Use notepad, or some other simpleminded editor.

when i use notepad it reads it in as 0.0????????????Are you as peeved with this as I am? Ta for all your help AGAIN

One final question if you don't mind and i'll be out of your hair for ever (phew i hear you sigh)....if there are other values in the file eg -#b how do i get my function to skip these values???????

Should magically happen, since anything with characters in it will return with a token type of TT_WORD, and so the if in the loop will fail and airpar will not be assigned.

W.r.t. the values you're getting, perhaps the next thing to do is check what Java is seeing, to make sure that you and Java agree on its contents. Make a small file, and output it to the console with a small loop like:

DataInputStream di=new DataInputStream(new
FileInputStream(filename));
String line;
boolean done=false;
do
{  try
   {   line=di.readLine();
       System.out.println(line);
   } catch(IOException e)
   {   done=true;
   }
} while(!done);

This will allow you to see what Java thinks is in the file.

Let me know what you find.