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StringTokenizer: How to handle multiple lines

Hi again all,

I'm still working on a StringTokenizer manipulation project and I have more questions for you specialists =)
II'm trying to use StringTokenizer to handle multiple line. Here's precisely what I'm trying to do:

I have a file containing on the first line a year and a movie title. On the next line, I have a couple of numbers separated by "," which represent actor's number.
Here's a sample:

1955 The night of the hunter
02, 21, 10, 46

I'd like to have a variable that contain each of these infromations, but don't really know how to do it using StringTokenizer... I tred anyway and here's what it looks like so far...

public static void InitArrMovie(Movie[] arrMovies, Actor[] arrActors)
      {
            String aLine, aNextLine, year = "", title = "", noActor = "";
            int i = 0;

            try
            {
                  FileInputStream fin = new FileInputStream("Movies.txt");
                  BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(fin));

                  while ((aLine = br.readLine()) != null)
                  {
                        StringTokenizer st2 = new StringTokenizer(aLine);
                        year = st2.nextToken();
                        title = st2.nextToken("\n\r");

                        aNextLine = st2.nextToken("\n\r");
                        System.out.println(aNextLine);


                        Movie aMovie = new Movie (year, title);
                        arrMovies[i] = aMovie;
                        System.out.println(arrMovies[i].getyear() + " - " + arrMovies[i].getTitle());

                        StringTokenizer st3 = new StringTokenizer(aLine, ",");
                        noActor = st3.nextToken();
                        System.out.println(noActor);

                        i++;
                  }

            br.close();
            }

            catch (Exception e) {
                  e.printStackTrace();
                  System.out.println("Fichier introuvable!");
            }
      }

Mick Barry

> aNextLine = st2.nextToken("\n\r");

that should be

aLine = br.readLine();

The_Kingpin08

ASKER

Thanks objects,

now that I can read the second line, how do I divide it into tokens so I can read every numbers (separated by ",") ? I don't know on which condition I need to build my loop - how do I check if it's the end of the line ?

Thanks,
Frank

Mick Barry

StringTokenizer st3 = new StringTokenizer(aLine, ",");
while (st3.hasMoreTokens())
{
noActor = st3.nextToken();
System.out.println(noActor);
}

Mick Barry

example of how to convert an int at:

http://www.objects.com.au/java/conversions.do

The_Kingpin08

ASKER

There's something I don't understand... I've convert the value of a token into a string so I can compare it to an object's property, but the comparison always returns me false, even if the printed value are the same ?!?! Here's the code sample I use to compare:

aLine = br.readLine();
StringTokenizer st3 = new StringTokenizer(aLine, ",");
while (st3.hasMoreTokens())
{
      actorNo = st3.nextToken();
      for (j = 0; j <= arrActors.length; j++)
      {
// This is the comparison that doesn't word <--------------------------------
            if (actorNo == arrActors[j].getNumber())
            {
                  System.out.println("Actor Found!");
                  arrMovies[i].AddActors(arrActors[j], index);
                  index++;
            }
      }
}

// From the Actor class
String actorNumber;

public String getNumber()
{
      return actorNumber;
}

Thanks a lot for the help !
Frank

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The_Kingpin08

ASKER

That just did my night ! All my comparison where like that ;)

Thanks a lot objects !!

Frank

Mick Barry

no worries :)