Parsing a txt doc and using the text to put into an arraylist

Question

so i have a sample doc like this:
add name hairy; mass 4; species bird
sort mass
save myaddresses.txt
so i would like to have a scanner read the above text and parse for words name, mass and species where it would store the word after it into an arraylist. there is a argument which reads the txt file. i also use a delimited to seperate out the variables.
import java.util.*;
import java.io.*;
public class Animallog {
public static void main (String [] args)throws Exception
Animal a = new Person();
name = a.getname();
mass = a.getmass();
species= a.getspecies();
ArrayList <Animal> list = new ArrayList<Animal>();
i=0;
list.get(i).SetName();
list.get(i).SetMass();
list.get(i).SetSpecies();
i++;
break;
File f = new File (args[0]);
Scanner interactionsinput = new Scanner(f);
interactionsinput.useDelimiter(";");
nameinput = interactionsinput.next();
if (nameinput.equalsIngnoreCase("name"))
massinput = interactionsinput.next();
if (massinput = equalsIgnoreCase("mass"))
speciesinput = interactionsinput.next();
if (speciesinput.equalsIgnoreCase("species"))
so here i'm totally lost i'm surpose to parse this sample and put the data into the arraylist and a set of information for a single animal.
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Answer 1

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