An arraylist question

Hello everyone!
I am writing a java project to record the clicked numbers of the threads in a specific forum. I created 2 tables in a MySql database to store the thread information and clicked number respectively.
ThreadInfo Table:
thread_id | thread_title() | thread_link | thread_author | submitting_timeThreadFeedback Table:
thread_id | clicked | replied | at_timeWhen I got a new piece of thread information such as
(thread_title, thread_link, thread_author, clicked, replied, at_time)First I check if this thread has been recorded according to its link. If yes, I fetch its existed thread_id from ThreadInfo table and then record its new clicked and replied number in the ThreadFeedback table. If it has not been recorded, I generate a new thread_id that has not been used and insert it to the ThreadInfo Table.
For efficiency's sake, I don't want to query the database many times. So at the beginning, I read all the information I needed from the database with
"SELECT thread_id, thread_hplink FROM ThreadInfo;" As I will have many new pieces of thread information and the resultset is usually used for only one iteration, I dumped the information in the resultset into two ArrayList objects: UUIDList and ThreadLinkList and tried to let the element UUIDList(i) stores the UUID of element ThreadHplinkList(i) with
 String str="SELECT thread_id, thread_hplink "+
 "FROM TianyazatanThreadInfo;";
 ResultSet rltThread=stmnt.executeQuery(str);
 while(rltThread.next())
 str=rltThread.getString("thread_id");
 UUIDList.add(str);
 str=rltThread.getString("thread_hplink");
 ThreadHplinkList.add(str);
 } The problem I encountered is that when I try to use
 for(int i=0;i<ThreadHplinkList.size();i++)
 str=ThreadHplinkList.get(i);
 if(str.trim()==threadHplink.trim())
 boolean threadExisted=true;
 uuid=UUID.fromString(UUIDList.get(i));
 break;
 }to identify if the thread has been recorded. The above codes return threadExisted false even if the following code returns threadExisted true
 existed=ThreadHplinkList.contains(threadHplink);But if I use .containes to check the existence of the thread, how can I get its correponding
thread_id?

Yes, kajbj. Your suggestion is very helpful. I will try.
But why the iteration of ArrayList returns false answer?

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Hi! everyone.
I want to know
if I have a File, and the data in the file are type int, type String...
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Edited by: Terry001 on Apr 30, 2008 1:13 PM

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I have many questions about this program, but let me ask this one first:
In the TrueFalseQeustion class, why are there so many constructors? What is the purpose of setting some of the variables to default values?
Thank you very much!!!
Edited by: Terry001 on Apr 16, 2008 10:02 AM

newark wrote:
Stop ignoring the error messages. You seem to think that an error message means you're doing the assignment wrong. It's probably a simple fix. Post the exact error messages, as well as the code that corresponds to them. The error message will tell you exactly what line the problem occurs on, so you know right where to look.Hi,
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 return correctAnswer;
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 super(text, answer, pts, DEFAULT_CATEGORY_VALUE, DEFAULT_DIFFICULTY_LEVEL);
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 super(text, answer, pts, ctgry, DEFAULT_DIFFICULTY_LEVEL);
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 super(text, answer, DEFAULT_POINT_VALUE, ctgry, DEFAULT_DIFFICULTY_LEVEL);
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t.addQuestion(x); I don't know how to allow the client to construct the list of answer choices one at a time(add one potential answer choice by calling the addAsnwerChoices() method once)
Here are a few original sentences of my assignment which describe what I should do with the MultipleChoiceQuestion class
Using TrueFalseQuestion as a model, develop a new MultipleChoiceQuestion class that can be used to represent a problem where the user must select one of several answer choices (e.g., "Select answer (a), (b), (c), or (d)."). This new question type should have all of the same externally-visible functionality as TrueFalseQuestion, except that it must:
maintain a list of potential answer choices
provide a method that allows the client to construct the list of answer choices one at a time (i.e., the client should be able to call an addAnswerChoice() method to pass a new answer option to the MultipleChoiceQuestion.)
display (as part of the question text) the list of answer choices with appropriate letters ("abcd" instead of "0123") I don't understand what these sentences mean.
1. "Maintain a list of potential answer choices"-- this reminds me of the getPossibleAnswerChoice() method in the TrueFalseQuestion class
public String[] getPossibleAnswerChoice ()
 String[] possibleAnswerChoice = {"true", "false"};
 return possibleAnswerChoice;
 }I wonder that if the potential answer choices I have to store in the MultipleChoiceQuestion class are only letters "a", "b", "c", "d", etc, or include the answer text coming after the letters(eg. a.Red, b.Green)
2. "provide a method that allows the client to construct the list of answer choices one at a time". How do I achieve the functionality "one at a time"? Do I need to pass the input of the client (a potential answer choice) to the variable of the method which stores the list of potential answers?
3. "display (as part of the question text) the list of answer choices with appropriate letters". My question here is that: When the client type in one possible answer, should I append it to the variable questionText? (So I use the questionText variable in the methods of the first and second steps)
Thank you very much for your nice help!
Edited by: Terry001 on Apr 21, 2008 8:01 AM

Dynamic forms in jsf

Hi all,
This question has probably been asked a thousand times, but I can't find the answer.
I am an experienced Struts developer, but now I want to create an application using jsf.
It will be some kind of quiz with multiple choice questions. The problem is that the number of questions is not fixed, so for 1 quiz there can be 10 questions and for another one 20.
In struts I know that there is something called map-backed action forms that can be used for this kind of thing.
Does jsf have something like this? I can't seem to figure it out.
Thank you.

There is one thing that I don't like in the example. The generation of components in the backing bean. I am trying to generate them inside my jsp, but it won't work.
This is the code I use.
The jsp page
<body><h:form binding="#{backing_quiz.form1}" id="form1">
 
 <h:dataTable value="#{backing_quiz.questions}" var="question">
 <h:column>
 <h:outputText value="#{question.questionText}"/>
 <h:selectOneRadio layout="pageDirection">
 <f:selectItems value="#{question.answers}" />
 </h:selectOneRadio>
 </h:column>
 </h:dataTable>
 
 
 <h:messages/>
 
 
 <h:commandButton value="commandButton1"
 binding="#{backing_quiz.commandButton1}"
 id="commandButton1"
 action="#{backing_quiz.commandButton1_action}"/>
 
 </h:form></body>The backing bean with session scope.
public class Quiz {
 private HtmlForm form1;
 private HtmlDataTable dataTable1;
 private HtmlCommandButton commandButton1;
 private ArrayList questions = null;
 private HtmlSelectOneRadio selectOneRadio1;
 private UISelectItem selectItem1;
 private UISelectItem selectItem2;
 private UISelectItem selectItem3;
 public void setForm1(HtmlForm form1) {
 this.form1 = form1;
 public HtmlForm getForm1() {
 return form1;
 public ArrayList getQuestions() {
 if(questions == null) {
 System.out.println("Create new list");
 questions = new ArrayList();
 Question question = new Question();
 ArrayList answers = new ArrayList();
 answers.add(new SelectItem(1,"vraag 1 antwoord 1"));
 answers.add(new SelectItem(2,"vraag 1 antwoord 2"));
 answers.add(new SelectItem(3,"vraag 1 antwoord 3"));
 question.setQuestionText("vraag 1");
 question.setAnswers(answers);
 questions.add(question);
 question = new Question();
 answers = new ArrayList();
 answers.add(new SelectItem(1,"vraag 2 antwoord 1"));
 answers.add(new SelectItem(2,"vraag 2 antwoord 2"));
 answers.add(new SelectItem(3,"vraag 2 antwoord 3"));
 answers.add(new SelectItem(4,"vraag 2 antwoord 4"));
 question.setQuestionText("vraag 2");
 question.setAnswers(answers);
 questions.add(question);
 return questions;
 public void setDataTable1(HtmlDataTable dataTable1) {
 this.dataTable1 = dataTable1;
 public HtmlDataTable getDataTable1() {
 return dataTable1;
 public void setCommandButton1(HtmlCommandButton commandButton1) {
 this.commandButton1 = commandButton1;
 public HtmlCommandButton getCommandButton1() {
 return commandButton1;
 public String commandButton1_action() {
 // Add event code here...
 System.out.println("add item with number " + (((Question)questions.get(0)).getAnswers().size()+1));
 ((Question)questions.get(0)).getAnswers().add(new SelectItem((((Question)questions.get(0)).getAnswers().size()+1) , "Nieuwe vraag " + ((Question)questions.get(0)).getAnswers().size()+1 ));
 return null;
}The commandButton1_action() needs to add an answer to the first question. This is in fact the backsite where quizes can be created.
When the action is called an it's redirected to the same page, the answer is added, but due to the fact that the page is rerenderd, the previously selected are gone.
Is this clear or do I need to give more explanation?

Any ideas to cache records in memory or something?

HI,
I have a question about keeping records off the database.
i have a bean that opens up the recordset puts it in a vector and returns the vector to the jsp from whence it was called.
But the problem is that these database queries are truly unnecessary. If i could update the recordset say once a month i would be set.
my QUESTION is does anyone know any strategy for storing the recordset in memory some how ?
each user might need a different recordset.
however i could possibly reuse a recordset of about 500 records from Oracle for 1 user but if the user chooses to look at another topic then i would possibly have to refersh that recordset with different info based on a different primary key.

Thanks.
QUESTION 1:
I have been using a Vector to store recordsets.
The bean method would call a sql statement in another class and loop through the resultset - insert everything as a String into the Vector and return the vector to the JSP page. is that how you would do it?
Are Vectors serializable? is it possible to implement your solution by caching the Vectors in an HttpSession? or is this restricted to an arraylist
QUESTION 2:
You say I should store the arraylist into the HttpSession -
I just want to double check how you implement this.
Do you mean that I should have a bean that implements serialiable and instantiate the bean in session scope ?
with <jsp:useBean id="j" etc etc scope="session" > and everytime the person goes to a page with this instantiation it will just pick it up out of session instead of requerying the db.
to change the primary key of query in the array list I would pass a different id to the bean and would it automatically know to requery and populate the arraylist?
Thanks
Stephen

Help With Homework Reading user input into an Array

This program is to read questions from a file and retrieve user input as answers.
This program is no where near complete, but I am stuck. (I dont know why, maybe its too late at night)
I have a total of three classes. I am currently stuck in my main class. See Comments ("What the hell am I printing/ Will this work?"). In this next line of code, i need to read the question from the file to the user, and then accept their input.
Main Class:
 public static void main(String[] args) {
 try {
 Scanner in = new Scanner(new FileReader("quiz.txt"));
 catch (Exception e) {
 System.out.println(e);
 ArrayList <Questions> Questions = new ArrayList<Questions>();
 ArrayList<String> answers = new ArrayList<String>();
 for (Questions qu : Questions)
 System.out.println(); //What the hell am I printing.
 String answer = in.nextLine(); //Will this work?
 answers.add(answer); //This should work
 }Questions Class:
public class Questions {
 String Questions = "";
 public String getQuestions() {
 return Questions;
 public void setQuestions(String Questions) {
 this.Questions = Questions;
 public Questions(String Questions)
 this.Questions = Questions;
}answers class:
package QuizRunner;
* @author Fern
public class answers {
 String answers = "";
 public String addAnswers() {
 return answers;
 public answers(String answers) {
 this.answers = answers;
 }

doremifasollatido wrote:
According to standard Java coding conventions, class names should start with a capital letter (so, your "answers" should be "Answers"). And, variable and method names should start with a lowercase letter (so, your "Questions" should be "questions").
And classnames should (almost) never be plural words. So it should probably be an 'Answer' and something else containing a collection of those objects called 'answers'.
Also, *your variable name should not be the same (case-sensitive match) as your class name.* Although it will compile if done syntactically correctly, it is highly confusing! I first wrote this because you did this for both "Questions" and "answers" classes in their class definition, but you also used "Questions" as your variable name in 'main'. (Note that applying the standard capitalization conventions will prevent you from using the same name for your class name as for your variable name, since they should start with different cases.)
Of course having an 'Answer' called 'answer' is often fine.
Your Questions class should probably be called "Question", anyway--it looks like it should hold a single question. And, your "answers" class should probably be called "Answer"--it looks like it should hold a single answer. You aren't using your "answers" class anywhere right now, anyway.Correct. There might be room for a class containing a collection of Question objects, but it's unlikely such a class would contain just that and nothing else.

Question | Using JSTL to Display elements of an ArrayList of HashMaps

Hi All,
I would like some advice on the following code snippet which is a representation of my real code. Please see below for the code snippet and the specific questions I have.
<%@ taglib prefix="c" uri="http://java.sun.com/jstl/core" %>
<%
// This Object is an ArrayList of HashMaps
MyClassDataBean myDb = (MyClassDataBean)session.getAttribute("testDataBean");
// Adding myDb to the pageContext so that EL can be used to render components in this Object
pageContext.setAttribute("myDb",myDb);
pageContext.setAttribute("column1",MyConstants.COLUMN1);
pageContext.setAttribute("column2",MyConstants.COLUMN2);
%>
<html>
<head></head>
<body>
 <c:choose>
 <c:when test="${myDb != null}" >
 <c:forEach var="hashMapAsRow" items="${myDb}" varStatus="lineInfo">
 <tr>
 <td><c:out value="${hashMapAsRow[column1]}" /></td>
 <td><c:out value="${hashMapAsRow[column2]}" /></td>
 </tr>
 </c:forEach>
 </c:when>
 <c:otherwise>
 <tr><td colspan="100%">No Data Exists</td></tr>
 </c:otherwise>
 </c:choose>
</body>
</html>Question: Is there an alternative to accessing elements using the core tag library in this Object without using pageContext.setAttribute() ? If not, would the c_rt library be better to use in this scenario? If so, could someone give me an example of the right way to use it based on the above example?
Thanks,
Joe

<%@ taglib prefix="c" uri="http://java.sun.com/jstl/core" %>
<c:set var="myDb" value="${sessionScope.testDataBean}" />
<html>
<head></head>
<body>
 <c:choose>
 <c:when test="${myDb != null}" >
 <c:forEach var="hashMapAsRow" items="${myDb}" varStatus="lineInfo">
 <tr>
 <td><c:out value="${hashMapAsRow['column1']}" /></td>
 <td><c:out value="${hashMapAsRow['column2']}" /></td>
 </tr>
 </c:forEach>
 </c:when>
 <c:otherwise>
 <tr><td colspan="100%">No Data Exists</td></tr>
 </c:otherwise>
 </c:choose>
</body>
</html> or the one below
<%@ taglib prefix="c" uri="http://java.sun.com/jstl/core" %>
<html>
<head></head>
<body>
 <c:choose>
 <c:when test="${sessionScope.testDataBean != null}" >
 <c:forEach var="hashMapAsRow" items="${sessionScope.testDataBean}" varStatus="lineInfo">
 <tr>
 <td><c:out value="${hashMapAsRow['column1']}" /></td>
 <td><c:out value="${hashMapAsRow['column2']}" /></td>
 </tr>
 </c:forEach>
 </c:when>
 <c:otherwise>
 <tr><td colspan="100%">No Data Exists</td></tr>
 </c:otherwise>
 </c:choose>
</body>
</html> is this the one which you are looking for ??
REGARDS,
RaHuL

Novice question: ArrayList error

Two classes: Bank and Customer.
Customer class has this constructor:
public class Customer {
protected String cust_name;
protected int card_number;
protected double current_bal;
protected double credit_limit;
public Customer(String ID, int CCN, double balance, double limit) {
cust_name = ID;
card_number = CCN;
current_bal = balance;
credit_limit = limit;
}Bank class has an ArrayList of Customer objects.
import java.util.ArrayList;
public class Bank extends Customer
ArrayList<Customer> customers = new ArrayList<Customer>();
/* here is the error on below line: compiler outputs "<identifier> expected"
customers.add(new Customer("Nicholas Cage", 345, 225.0, 2600.0));Is it wanting an identifier in the add method? (i.e. customers.add(1, new Customer....)

customer object being added to the arraylist is fine..u should have the customers.add() within a method...where you have that customers.add()?
if its within a methed then just verify if the braces above are closed properly b'coz this error might come if the braces are not closed properly..

Questions on filtering and sorting an arraylist

Hello All,
I'm trying to figure out a better way to do this code, but what I'm doing is taking an arrayList and filtering it using iter.remove(), based on a criteria I have, then take the results and sort them. The code below works, but I was seeing class cast exceptions when I tried to do a ss.addAll(list);
, but it worked when I just added the set object. Why is this and is there a better way to do all this?
Set set = new HashSet();
List retList = new ArrayList();
SortedSet ss = new TreeSet();
for(Iterator iter = list.iterator(); iter.hasNext();){
.//More code...
iter.remove();
//Remove duplicates.
set.addAll(list);
ss.add(set);
retList.addAll(set);
return retList;

Your current code is adding the set (the hash set) as one element (the only element?) of the sorted set. Is this what you want to do? Would you rather add each element of the set to the sorted set?
I don't know about the class cast exceptions. If you want somebody's comment on this part, you may consider posting code and stack trace.
I think I'd rely on Collections.sort() for sorting rather than TreeSet. If you prefer TreeSet, why not skip the hash set in between?
Hope this helps.
Please remember the code button/tags.

Question on import java.util.ArrayList, etc.

Hi,
I was wondering what the following meant and what the differences were. When would I have to use these:
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Collections; <--I especially don't understand what this means
import java.util.Comparator; <---same for this (can I consolidate these into the bottom two?)
import java.io.*;
import java.util.*;

MAresJonson wrote:
Also, what does this mean:
return foo == f.getFoo() ? true : false;
(more specifically...what does the "? true : false" mean and is there another way to code that?)It's called the ternary operator. For your specific example, you could just do:
return foo == f.getFoo();But, more generally,
return foo == f.getFoo() ? "equal" : "Not equal";means:
if (foo == f.getFoo()) {
return "equal";
else {
return "Not equal";
}As everyone else said at the same time...

ArrayList, the same old newbie questions..

I get this:
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: ArrayLists/java
When trying to run a good friend of mine 's code:
import java.util.*;
/** Browser history class. This class functions
* linearly, to store and get all names.
class BrowserHistory
     private ArrayList backHistory, forwardHistory;
     private Object currentPage = "";
     public BrowserHistory()
          backHistory = new ArrayList();
          forwardHistory = new ArrayList();
     public void newURL(String url)
          if (currentPage.equals(null) || currentPage.equals(""))
               //Do nothing
          else
               backHistory.add(0,currentPage);
          currentPage = url;
          forwardHistory.clear();
     public String forward()
          backHistory.add(0,currentPage);
          currentPage = forwardHistory.get(0);
          forwardHistory.remove(0);
          return (String)currentPage;
     public String back()
          forwardHistory.add(0,currentPage);
          currentPage = backHistory.get(0);
          backHistory.remove(0);
          return (String)currentPage;
     public boolean backIsEmpty()
          return backHistory.isEmpty();
     public boolean forwardIsEmpty()
          return forwardHistory.isEmpty();
Instantiation of the ArrayList class seems to be the problem, but I can't find a solution.

There can be only 2 problems with this:
1.) Your classpath is incorrect.Probable.
2.) Your JDK version is old and does not contain the
Collection framework classes.JDK V. 1.4.
Thanks a lot, Vikas.
Vikas

Help with ArrayList...

Hi Everyone:
I have this java program that I'm doing for school and I need a little bit of insite on how to do certain things. Basically what I did was I read a text file into the program. Once I tokenized the text(by line), I created another object(we'll call it Throttle) and passed the values that was tokenized, then I stored the object(Throttle) into ArrayList. Now, my question is how to I access the object(Throttle) from the ArrayList and use the object's(Throttle) methods? Here's the code that I have currently:
import javax.swing.*;
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import java.io.*;
import java.util.*;
public class Project1 extends JFrame
private JButton numOfThrottles, shiftThrottle, createThrottle, quit;
private JPanel panel;
private FileReader fr;
private BufferedReader br;
private FileWriter fw;
private int tempTop;
private int whatToShift;
private int tempPosition;
private ArrayList arrThrottles = new ArrayList();
private String line;
private Throttle myThrottle = null, daThrottle;
private StringTokenizer st;
public Project1()
super ("Throttles - by Joe Munoz");
panel = new JPanel();
setContentPane(panel);
panel.setLayout(null);
//**button stuff
numOfThrottles = new JButton("Number of Throttles");
shiftThrottle = new JButton("Shift a Throttle");
createThrottle = new JButton("Create New Throttle");
quit = new JButton("Quit");
panel.add(numOfThrottles);
panel.add(shiftThrottle);
panel.add(createThrottle);
panel.add(quit);
numOfThrottles.setBounds(5,7,150,25);
shiftThrottle.setBounds(5,30,150,25);
createThrottle.setBounds(5,50,150,25);
quit.setBounds(5,70,150,25);
numOfThrottles.addActionListener(new ClickDetector());
shiftThrottle.addActionListener(new ClickDetector());
createThrottle.addActionListener(new ClickDetector());
quit.addActionListener(new ClickDetector());
//window stuff
setSize(170,135);
show();
try
br = new BufferedReader(new FileReader("C:\\Storage.txt"));
catch (FileNotFoundException ex)
System.out.println ("File Not Found!");
try
line = br.readLine();
while (line != null)
st = new StringTokenizer(line, " ");
tempTop = Integer.parseInt(st.nextToken());
tempPosition = Integer.parseInt(st.nextToken());
myThrottle = new Throttle(tempTop, tempPosition);
arrThrottles.add(myThrottle);
line = br.readLine();
catch(Exception e)
System.out.println("IO Exception!!!");
System.exit(0);
private class ClickDetector implements ActionListener
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent event)
try
if (event.getSource() == numOfThrottles)
JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, "Number of Throttles is..." + myThrottle.getNumOfThrottles());
if (event.getSource() == shiftThrottle)
String shift = JOptionPane.showInputDialog("Please Choose a Throttle from 0 to " + (arrThrottles.size() - 1));
whatToShift = Integer.parseInt(shift);
System.out.println ("whatToShift = " + whatToShift);
// Need help here
if (event.getSource() == createThrottle)
String inTop = JOptionPane.showInputDialog("Please Enter Top");
tempTop = Integer.parseInt(inTop);
String inPosition = JOptionPane.showInputDialog("Please Enter Position");
tempPosition = Integer.parseInt(inPosition);
myThrottle = new Throttle(tempTop, tempPosition);
arrThrottles.add(myThrottle);
JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, "The Throttle has been created");
if (event.getSource() == quit)
System.out.println ("you clicked quit");
catch (Exception e)
JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, "No Numbers inputted!");
Any insite/suggestions on what to do? Thank You.
Joe

Hi,
I have a question addition to this same question.
If you have an object and there are 10 different objects with in the object ..
tempTop = Integer.parseInt(st.nextToken());
tempPosition = Integer.parseInt(st.nextToken());
tempBottom = 10;
Is this how you access( from the same example) each object value
strTop= (Throttle)arrThrottles.get(i).tempTop;
strPos= (Throttle)arrThrottles.get(i).tempPosition;
strB= (Throttle)arrThrottles.get(i).tempBottom;
----I AM USING ARRAYS in a JAVABEAN
Class test {
public objectTEMP t[] = null;
public void initialize(val1,al2) {
 t = redim(t,10,false); //To set the length of the array to 10
public class T {
String s1 = null;
String s2 = null;
int i1 = null;
public void setS1(String inVal) {
 s1=inVal;
public void setS2(String inVal) {
 s2=inVal;
public void setI1(int inVal) {
 i1=inVal;
public String getS1() {
 return s1;
public String getS2() {
 return s2;
public String getI1() {
 return i1;
for (int i=0; i<t.length;i++) {
System.out.println("t"+i+t.getS1());
t.setS1("SOMESTRING");
System.out.println("t"+i+t.getS1());
Any use the setter and getter method from JSP to update or get the information.
I want to change this to ArrayList as they are fast and they have resizing ability.
How to I implement this in ARRAYLIST.
Thanks a bunch

Huge headache, ArrayList from Txt File

I'm trying to generate an ArrayList from a text file. But the problem is I have no idea how to go about it properly. This is what I've gotten so far.
import java.io.*;
import java.util.*;
public class reader
 try
 FileReader input = new FileReader("quizscore.txt");
 BufferedReader bufferInput = new BufferedReader(input);
 String line;
 while ((line = bufferInput.readLine ()) !=null )
 String[] result = line.split("\\s");
 for (int x=0; x<result.length; x++)
 System.out.println(result[x]);
 catch (IOException e)
 System.out.println("Error:" + e);
}That is my data reader which is reading a text file with a buncha numbers like this,
9893 034 009 077 078 020
1947 045 040 088 078 055
2877 055 050 099 078 080
3189 022 070 100 078 077
Now I want to create an ArrayList to put all that data into. I cannot seem to set it up correctly and it's driving me nuts.
class Student
 public int idNum;
 public int quiz1;
 public int quiz2;
 public int quiz3;
 public int quiz4;
 public int quiz5;
 public Student(int id, int q1, int q2, int q3, int q4, int q5)
 this.idNum = id;
 this.quiz1 = q1;
 this.quiz2 = q2;
 this.quiz3 = q3;
 this.quiz4 = q4;
 this.quiz5 = q5;
}Now where would I put the
ArrayList StudentData = new ArrayList();
so that when I read the text file, it automatically writes into the ArrayList formated like the public Student object I have? I was orginally supposed to use the StringTokenizer but after reading the java documentation it suggested I code using the split function. So the question is, how do I get it to write every line's tokens into one array row and so on?

Using turng's code as a sort of guideline, I have created this piece of code. There are some problems though. The array doesn't seem to be writing properly.
import java.io.*;
import java.util.*;
public class getData
 public getData()
 public void load(File file)
 String[][] studentData = new String[40][6];
 try
 FileReader input = new FileReader(file);
 BufferedReader bufferInput = new BufferedReader(input);
 String line;
 while ((line = bufferInput.readLine ()) !=null )
 System.out.println(line);
 //String[] result = line.split("\\s");
 //for (int x=0; x<result.length; x++)
 // System.out.println(result[x]);
 for (int l = 0; l <40; l++)
 for (int i = 0; i < 6; i++)
 String[] tokens = line.split("\\s");
 for (int x = 0; x<tokens.length; x++)
 studentData[l] = tokens[x];
 System.out.println("L is:" + l);
 //System.out.print("I is:" + i);
 System.out.println(studentData[l][i]);
 catch (IOException e)
 System.out.println("Error:" + e);
 public static void main(String arg[])
 (new getData()).load(new File("quizscore.txt"));
Basically what happens when I run through this, it prints this (This is the last portion, I'm assuming it goes from 0-39)
L is:38
6999
L is:38
000
L is:38
098
L is:38
089
L is:38
078
L is:38
020
L is:38
6999
L is:38
000
L is:38
098
L is:38
089
L is:38
078
L is:38
020
L is:38
6999
L is:38
000
L is:38
098
L is:38
089
L is:38
078
L is:38
020
L is:38
6999
L is:38
000
L is:38
098
L is:38
089
L is:38
078
L is:38
020
L is:38
6999
L is:38
000
L is:38
098
L is:38
089
L is:38
078
L is:38
020
L is:38
6999
L is:38
000
L is:38
098
L is:38
089
L is:38
078
L is:38
020
L is:39
6999
L is:39
000
L is:39
098
L is:39
089
L is:39
078
L is:39
020
L is:39
6999
L is:39
000
L is:39
098
L is:39
089
L is:39
078
L is:39
020
L is:39
6999
L is:39
000
L is:39
098
L is:39
089
L is:39
078
L is:39
020
L is:39
6999
L is:39
000
L is:39
098
L is:39
089
L is:39
078
L is:39
020
L is:39
6999
L is:39
000
L is:39
098
L is:39
089
L is:39
078
L is:39
020
L is:39
6999
L is:39
000
L is:39
098
L is:39
089
L is:39
078
L is:39
020The actual text file that is being read,
Stud Qu1 Qu2 Qu3 Qu4 Qu5
1234 052 007 100 078 034
2134 090 036 090 077 030
3124 100 045 020 090 070
4532 011 017 081 032 077
5678 020 012 045 078 034
6134 034 080 055 078 045
7874 060 100 056 078 078
8026 070 010 066 078 056
9893 034 009 077 078 020
1947 045 040 088 078 055
2877 055 050 099 078 080
3189 022 070 100 078 077
4602 089 050 091 078 060
5405 011 011 000 078 010
6999 000 098 089 078 020It's writing the very last line throughout the whole array. Why is this? I know my loop coding is probably the problem, and I'm trying to draw out the flow on a piece of paper, but it's confusing me more and more. And I do apologize in advance if the error that's causing this is some simple coding error I should have learned before but probably haven't.
Edited by: soulesschild on Nov 16, 2007 5:39 PM

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