Re: Reading integer values from a txt file and save them into an array

From:
Dan Andrews <danharrisandrews@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Thu, 28 Sep 2006 20:38:26 -0600
Message-ID:
<efi0r0$4e4$1@utornnr1pp.grouptelecom.net>
zigbeedeep@gmail.com wrote:

Hello,

I would like to read integer values from a txt file :

sam.txt

66 78 99 90
23 34 56 78
12 45 78 09

and save them into an array

Sam


Hi Sam,

The cool thing about many of the Reader and Stream objects in the
java.io package is that you can chain them together for the desired
results. Try something like this:

   public static List<Integer> getIntegersFromFile(
       String fileName) throws IOException {
     StringWriter writer = new StringWriter();
     BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(
         new FileReader(fileName));
     for (String line = reader.readLine(); line != null; line = reader
         .readLine()) {
       writer.write(line + " ");
     }
     StringTokenizer tokens = new StringTokenizer(writer
         .toString());
     List<Integer> list = new ArrayList<Integer>();
     while (tokens.hasMoreTokens()) {
       String str = tokens.nextToken();
       try {
         list.add(new Integer(str));
       } catch (NumberFormatException e) {
         System.out.println("Error '" + str
             + "' is not an integer.");
       }
     }
     // If you wanted an int array
     // int[] array = new int[list.size()];
     // for( int i = 0; i < array.length; i++){
     // array[i] = list.get(i);
     // }
     return list;
   }

Cheers,

Dan Andrews
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