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Question

I am trying to write a code that will ask the user to either enter in a name of a reds baseball player, a batting average, or a slugging percentage. When this is entered the name of that corresponding player will pop up along with his stats. The code that I have so far is written below. I just need help in the three areas of my if statements so that if the user types in a name, average, or slug percentage then that player and stats will come up from the file in my program(stats.txt).
import javax.swing.*;
import java.io.*;
public class BattingStats
public static void main(String[]args) throws IOException
String option=selectOption("Select a search option"))
getPlyrName();
//need help here?
if(option.equals("listBatAvg"))
//need help here?
if(option.equals("listSlug"))
//need help here?
private static void readSomeLines() throws IOException
String filename="stats.txt";
FileReader fr=new FileReader( filename);
BufferedReader br=new Buffered Reader (fr);
String sLine=br.readLine();
while (sLine != null)
String[] stats = sLine.split("\t");
sLine=br.readLine();
br.close();
public static String selectOption (String prompt)
String option=" ";
int choice= JOptionPane.showOptionDialog(null, prompt, "Cinncinnati Reds player stats", JOptionPane.DEFAULT_OPTION, new Object[]
"Search for a particular players stats", "List stats in decending order based on slugging percentage"
if (choice==0)
option="searchPlyr";
if(choice==1)
option="listBatAvg";
if(choice==2)
option="listSlug";
return option;
public static String getPlyrName () throws IOException
String name=JOptionPane.showInputDialog(null, "Enter players name?");
return name;
}

Answer 1

I assume that there will be more than one line in each txt file. Your code appears to loop through the file lines but does nothing with them. I think you need something like:
import java.util.ArrayList;
ArrayList allResults = new ArrayList();   //Declared at the top of your program
allResults.add(stats);
I reproduce your code below with some amendments.  I think you would have a hard time compiling this without my amendments.  I am not sure about some of the details but atleast it will now compile.  You should compile and run your code regularly so that you only have one or two errors to deal with.  You should add occasional System.out.println("Message") statements to help you understand what the code is doing.  You can comment them out when you are confident.
import javax.swing.*;
import java.io.*;
public class BattingStats
     public static void main(String[]args) throws IOException
          // OK Java is object oriented so get rid of static and
          // create a BattingStats object
          BattingStats b = new BattingStats();
     public BattingStats()
          String player = "";
          String option=selectOption("Select a search option"); //Removed surplus bracket
          try
               player = getPlyrName();
          catch (IOException ioe)
               System.out.println("Error in getting Player name");
               System.out.println("Program terminating");
               System.exit(1);
               //need help here?     <<< Sort out file reading first
          if(option.equals("listBatAvg"))
               //need help here?
          if(option.equals("listSlug"))
               //need help here?
     private void readSomeLines() throws IOException    // Static removed
          String filename="stats.txt";
          FileReader fr=new FileReader( filename);
           //BufferedReader br=new Buffered Reader (fr);
          BufferedReader br=new BufferedReader (fr);
          String sLine=br.readLine();
          while (sLine != null)
               String[] stats = sLine.split("\t");
               sLine=br.readLine();
               //The above is fine but surely you have more than one line
               //if so your data is being read and dropped.
               // I guess you need to create an ArrayList and add each
               // stats line to it
          br.close();
     public String selectOption (String prompt)   //Static removed
          String option=" ";
          //int choice= JOptionPane.showOptionDialog(null, prompt, "Cinncinnati Reds player stats", JOptionPane.DEFAULT_OPTION, new Object[]
          //"Search for a particular players stats", "List stats in decending order based on slugging percentage"
          String[] optionArray = {
                    "Player stats",
                    "Batting average",
                    "Slugging percentage"
          int choice= JOptionPane.showOptionDialog(
                    null,
                    prompt,
                    "Cinncinnati Reds player stats",
                    JOptionPane.DEFAULT_OPTION,
                    JOptionPane.QUESTION_MESSAGE,
                    null,
                    optionArray,
                    optionArray[1]
          if (choice==0)
               option="searchPlyr";  //Where is this used
          if(choice==1)
               option="listBatAvg";
          if(choice==2)
               option="listSlug";
          return option;
     public String getPlyrName () throws IOException   //Static removed
          String name=JOptionPane.showInputDialog(null, "Enter players name?");
          return name;
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