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InputMismatch Exception

Trying to get scanner to read double values from a text file and I get this.

Exception in thread "main" java.util.InputMismatchException
at java.util.Scanner.throwFor(Scanner.java:840)
at java.util.Scanner.next(Scanner.java:1461)
at java.util.Scanner.nextDouble(Scanner.java:2387)
at Array.main(Array.java:24)

public static void main(String[] args) throws FileNotFoundException

	{
		Scanner inFile = new Scanner(new FileReader("data"));

		double[] scores = new double[8];
		int index;

		for(index = 0; index < scores.length; index++)
		scores[index] = inFile.nextDouble();

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CEHJ

Please post the file called 'data'

for_yan

Can all pieces in the file be interpreted as double?
Post your input, please

Sdot718

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Data.Text posted in the code.

//Data.txt

Ashley Boyle 	8.2  8.0  9.2  4.6  8.3  8.9  7.0  9.5

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for_yan

the first two items cannnot be double

CEHJ

You need to get rid of everything other than the doubles

for_yan

you need to skip the first tow with inFile.next()

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for_yan

Do all of your lines follow exactly the same pattern?

CEHJ

A couple of points there:

a. the answer accepted doesn't read all the doubles
b. if you're going to have info in the file that is ignored, it would be more efficient to leave it out in the first place as i mentioned earlier
c. if you're determined to leave the string info in there for some reason, you'll find the following approach more flexible for mixed data:

public static void main(String[] args) throws FileNotFoundException {
        Scanner inFile = new Scanner(new FileReader("data"));

        double[] scores = new double[8];
        int index = 0;
	while(inFile.hasNext()) {
	    if(inFile.hasNextDouble()) {
		scores[index++] = inFile.nextDouble();
	    }
	    else {
		inFile.next();
	    }
	}
	System.out.println(Arrays.toString(scores)); // test
    }

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