Reading a .dat file

Question

hey,
i have several dat files i want to read in. the files all contain different kind of types like int, double, strings ... it looks kind of like that:
   1     0.00     1.22    2    3.33    test1
   2     8.00     2.00    3    4.00    test2
   .     ...     ...     .     ...     ...so its like a matrix. i know how to read a file and everything. i was just wondering if anybody has a good idea to read the lines in and store it in a matrix or something. or what would be the best way to read it in and store it?!

Answer 1

I would:
1) Iterate through entire lines and keep track of the lines with a variable
2) create the matrix
Object[][] data = new Object[numOfLines][5];3) Use a nested for loop to iterate through all the data and add it to the matrix
for(int r)
    for(int c)
        data[r][c] = data.next();