Parsing multiple lines

Question

hey
i'm trying to parse some text
name Pac Man
email pac.man@@gamebots.com
phone oh oh oh
address smaith st
name Luke Skywalker
address Dirt Farm,
near Los Isely,
Tattooine
name abc
phone [phone]
i've managed to parse ok for single lines and input it into a arraylist but with address for luke skywalker i'm unable to parse the multiple lines
i've think i''ll set it so it parses to the next name or blank line but i'm having trouble writing this code, but it still only parses a single line
else if (word.equalsIgnoreCase("address") && text.hasNext()) {
address = text.nextLine();
address = address.trim();
pers.setAddress(address);

Answer 1

You could just read lines until you reach a blank line. Now you have all the info for one person, you can process them to get the name, email and address, concating multiple lines as needed.