Re: StreamTokenizer, data records, indexing/ newline trouble

From:
"Jeff Higgins" <oohiggins@yahoo.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.help
Date:
Sun, 1 Apr 2007 12:40:36 -0400
Message-ID:
<ZfRPh.16$ic.12@newsfe06.lga>
Jeff Higgins wrote:

import java.io.*;
import java.util.*;

public class FieldTokenizer {
 public static void main(String args[])
 {
   if (args.length == 0) {
     System.err.println("missing input filename");
     System.exit(1);
   }
   ArrayList<Field> list = new ArrayList<Field>();
   try {
     FileReader fr = new FileReader(args[0]);
     BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(fr);
     StreamTokenizer st = new StreamTokenizer(br);
     st.resetSyntax();
     st.eolIsSignificant(false);
     st.quoteChar('"');
     st.whitespaceChars(',', ',');
     int type;
     while ((type = st.nextToken()) != StreamTokenizer.TT_EOF) {
       Field dummy = new Field();
       for(int i = 0; i < 4; i++){
         if(i == 0){
           dummy.code = st.sval;
           st.nextToken();
         }
         else if(i == 1){
           dummy.title = st.sval;
           st.nextToken();
         }
         else if(i == 2){
           dummy.country = st.sval;
           st.nextToken();
         }
         else{
           dummy.description = st.sval;
           st.nextToken();
         }
       }
       list.add(dummy);
     }
     br.close();
   }
   catch (IOException e) {
     System.err.println(e);
   }
   for(Field f : list){
     System.out.println(f.code + " " + f.title +
            " " + f.country + " " + f.description);
   }
 }
 static class Field {
   String code;
   String title;
   String country;
   String description;
 }
}


Changing while loop to the following produces following output.
But I cannot find StreamTokenizer.ttype == 13 documented, I don't
know what it means?

      while ((type = st.nextToken()) != StreamTokenizer.TT_EOF) {
        Field dummy = new Field();
        if(st.ttype != 13 && st.ttype != 10){
          for(int i = 0; i < 4; i++){
            if(i == 0){
              dummy.code = st.sval;
              st.nextToken();
            }
            else if(i == 1){
              dummy.title = st.sval;
              st.nextToken();
            }
            else if(i == 2){
              dummy.country = st.sval;
              st.nextToken();
            }
            else{
              dummy.description = st.sval;
              st.nextToken();
            }
          }
        }
        list.add(dummy);
      }
      br.close();
    }
test input:
"11","Title 11","USA","Title 11 description contains no newlines"
"12","Title 12","USA","Title 12 description contains no newlines"
"123","Title 12","USA","Title 123 description contains no newlines"
"1234","Title 123","CAN","Title 1234 description contains no newlines"
"12345","Title 1234","MEX","Title 12345 description contains no newlines"

produces output:
11 Title 11 USA Title 11 description contains no newlines
null null null null
12 Title 12 USA Title 12 description contains no newlines
null null null null
123 Title 12 USA Title 123 description contains no newlines
null null null null
1234 Title 123 CAN Title 1234 description contains no newlines
null null null null
12345 Title 1234 MEX Title 12345 description contains no newlines
null null null null

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