How to parse this textfile

Question

I have a plan textfiel that i'm able to read but i can't parse the date and numbers in the text file.
text content: [ 2007.10.19 11:53:42 ] (test) <color=0xffbbbb00>Your item, costs 598.0 euro.
i suppose i can use substring/tokenizer but my knowledge in the tokenizer is limited.
Does anyone know how to parse the date and costs so i can show the total costs for an item?

Answer 1

mkoryak wrote:
import java.util.regex.*;
holy regex, batman! I definitely have to devote more time to regex. My mere mortal solution to some of the extractions went along these lines:
    private Color getColor(String text)
        Color c = null;
        String[] strArr = text.split("[<>]"); 
        // the forum mangles this  :( 
        // it should have angle brackets inside of square brackets. 
        String colorStr = strArr[1];
        colorStr = colorStr.substring(colorStr.indexOf("=") + 3);
        int[] colorInts = new int[4];
        for (int i = 0; i < colorInts.length; i++)
            String colorSubStr = colorStr.substring(2 * i, 2 * i + 2);
            colorInts[i] = Integer.parseInt(colorSubStr, 16);
        c = new Color(colorInts[0], colorInts[1], colorInts[2], colorInts[3]);
        return c;
    private Date getDate(String text)
        Date d = null;
        SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy.MM.dd HH:mm:ss");
        String[] dateStrArr = text.split("[\\[\\]]");
        String dateStr = dateStrArr[1].trim();
        try
                d = sdf.parse(dateStr);
        catch (ParseException e)
            e.printStackTrace();
        return d;
    }I will definitely study your code mkoryak, thanks.
Edited by: petes1234 on Oct 24, 2007 10:09 AM