Re: What is wrong with my program?

From:
SamuelXiao <foolsmart2005@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.help
Date:
Fri, 5 Sep 2008 08:26:32 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID:
<8bd00a8d-9b4f-4753-bfad-e2d79ea96716@z11g2000prl.googlegroups.com>
On Sep 4, 12:05 pm, Bo Vance <bowman.va...@invalid.invalid> wrote:

SamuelXiao wrote:

Actually, the lab requires me that I can't use the classes that
implement the Collection interface, except for Array class. The abov=

e

website seems to use this Collection.sort(). Moreover, I tried to
change some code, but the problem still exists. Are there any better
ways to correct my program?


Concerning your [snipped] request:

 > I want to Read data from file(student.txt), then sort the list in
 > ascending order. One more question, i want to reports the number =

of

 > students records successfully read as its return value and no
 > duplicate record should be read in. How can I do that?

since you cannot use classes from Collections you might examine
the Arrays.binarySearch(Object[] a, Object key) method:

<http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/util/Arrays.html
#binarySearch(java.lang.Object[], java.lang.Object)>

if(Arrays.binarySearch(students, studentNameComparator) < 0) {
   // You have no duplicate

}


Sorry again, I decided not using the comparator, instead, i use the
comparable function and, i can successful read the file and store the
data. Nevertheless, the compiler complaint with:

Exception in thread "main" java.util.NoSuchElementException
        at java.util.Scanner.throwFor(Scanner.java:838)
        at java.util.Scanner.next(Scanner.java:1461)
        at java.util.Scanner.nextInt(Scanner.java:2091)
        at java.util.Scanner.nextInt(Scanner.java:2050)
        at Main.main(Main.java:24)

I try again and again to debug but still no valid, the problem seems
to be the array objects; students[], because the experiment require me
to assume that there are at most 30 students records,
so, in the main method(): i initialize that
            Student[] cRecord = new Student[30];
            for(int i = 0; i<cRecord.length;i++){
                cRecord[i] = new Student();
            }

but then i realize that in the txt file, there may be only a few of
records, e.g. 5 or 6 or 7 records and so on..
if i initialize the student[] in above way, the length of cRecord will
always be 30!
So, in the displayRecords method, i check whether it is out of the
records should be checked. that is:

            for(int i=0;(std[i].getName()!=null) && i<std.length;i++){
                System.out.println(std[i].getName()); // First
display Acc Name
                System.out.println(std[i].getBal()); // Second
display Acc Bal
                System.out.println(std[i].getAccId()); // Third Acc
Id
                System.out.println();

            }
it is ok and shows that only 5 records( because my txt has 5 records
only initially).
but it comes with the
Exception in thread "main" java.util.NoSuchElementException
        at java.util.Scanner.throwFor(Scanner.java:838)
        at java.util.Scanner.next(Scanner.java:1461)
        at java.util.Scanner.nextInt(Scanner.java:2091)
        at java.util.Scanner.nextInt(Scanner.java:2050)
        at Main.main(Main.java:24)
error....how can i solve it??? Sorry for bothering again and again, i
have tried many ways but still no valid, and this experiment is urgent
now.

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