Cannot retrieve all vector objects - reading only last line .. Please help

Question

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When I test the vector in the method that adds the elements, each line is returned. Testing the vector in the method getData(), all items are returned within the while loop, but the test returns only the last line of in the vector. Can anyone help me out and let me know what I'm doing wrong.
Here's a summary of what I'm doing and the code follows.....
My bean class:
- creates a vector and adds several lines to the vector
- using StringTokenizer and Enumeration, parses the data and checks to see if the line has the required amount of tokens (which is 4). If so, then the string is passed to my main class
In the main class, the string is parsed into its appropriate attribute and then the required ones are displayed in the browser.
//Vector class bean
public SpecBean()
public Vector addData()
vecdata.addElement ("3|4||");
vecdata.addElement ("2|3||1200");
vecdata.addElement ("1|2|Q|");
vecdata.addElement ("4|2|U|4356");
return vecdata;
public String getData()
StringTokenizer st;
String record = new String();
Enumeration enumdata = vecdata.elements();
while (enumdata.hasMoreElements())
record = enumdata.nextElement().toString();
System.out.println (record);
st = new StringTokenizer( record, "|");
int numberOfTokens = st.countTokens();
if (numberOfTokens < 4)
record = "Incomplete Data";
return record;
// end class...
//begin main class -- this is a servlet which is why the
//out.println statements are there
try {
SpecBean specs = new SpecBean();
specs.getItemListing();
token = new StringTokenizer ((String)specs.getData(), "|");
out.println ("<table width=\"100%\" border=1>");
out.println("<tr>");
out.println ("<td width=\"40%\">");
while (token.hasMoreTokens())
String id = token.nextToken();
String orderNum = token.nextToken();
String name = token.nextToken();
String confNum = token.nextToken();
out.println (title + "</td>");
out.println ("<td width=\"20%\" align=\"right\">" + "$" + price + "</td>");
out.println ("<td width=\"40%\">" + notes);
//end main class
Thank you.

Answer 1

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My apologies. What I was looking to do was return EVERY line from the vector that had an equivalent of 4 tokens and no less. I just realized that the sample data I had entered into the vector only had one line w/ 4 tokens. When this is modified and there are 2+ lines that contain 4 tokens, the only line that is retrieved is the very last line. So if the data in the vector was:
public Vector addData()
vecdata.addElement ("3|4|rtd|222");
vecdata.addElement ("2|3||1200");
vecdata.addElement ("1|2|QsT|");
vecdata.addElement ("4|2|U|4356");
return vecdata;
public String getData()
StringTokenizer st;
String record = new String();
Enumeration enumdata = vecdata.elements();
while (enumdata.hasMoreElements())
record = enumdata.nextElement().toString();
System.out.println (record);
st = new StringTokenizer( record, "|");
int numberOfTokens = st.countTokens();
if (numberOfTokens < 4)
record = "Incomplete Data";
return record;
The output to the browser is
4 2 U 4356
and not
3 4 rtd 222
4 2 U 4356
I did some print statements throughout addData() and getData() to see if all of the objects in the vector were still there and everything checked out until I hit the end of the getData(). Before 'return record' the print statement returned '4 2 U 4356' only. I'm not sure what I have missed to have the getData() method return only one matching line and not all of them.
Your help is appreciated. Thank you.