Reading a text file and storing its data as a 2D array.

Question

I am creating a high score class for a game I am building which stores the top ten scores (NAME and SCORE) in a text file. The text file will have no more than a list of 10 rows and 2 columns so a 2d array of [1][9] will suffice.
My aim is to create a 2D array that can be sorted depending on scores but thats not the difficult bit.
I know that I have to read in each line of the text file individually and have managed to do that successfully in my code so far.
     public void readScores()
          try
               FileReader ifile = new FileReader("listOfHighScores.txt");
               BufferedReader bufStream = new BufferedReader(ifile);
               String positionOne = bufStream.readLine();
               String positionTwo = bufStream.readLine();
               String positionThree = bufStream.readLine();
               String positionFour = bufStream.readLine();
               String positionFive = bufStream.readLine();
               String positionSix = bufStream.readLine();
               String positionSeven = bufStream.readLine();
               String positionEight = bufStream.readLine();
               String positionNine = bufStream.readLine();
               String positionTen = bufStream.readLine();
               bufStream.close();
          catch (IOException e)
               JOptionPane.showMessageDialog
                    (null, "AN ERROR HAS OCCURRED");
     }It's the actual inputting the data into a 2D array thats proving rather difficult for me. I'm looking into using String Tokenizer to split up the lines of the text file which looks as follows but after reading several text books am still puzzled as to how it actually works:
300 James
290 Bob
280 Gareth
270 Steve
260 Nick
250 Fred
240 Ryan
230 Ross
220 Liam
210 Jay
Any assistance with this would be greatly appreciated!
Many Thanks.

Answer 1

Thanks for all your replies.
What is this single array of custom objects you speak
of? I can't find any reference to it in any of the
text books i'm using.You have a score and a name, right? By custom object, I just meant make your own class:
public class Score implements Comparable
   private int score;
   private String name;
   public Score(String theName, int theScore)
      name = theName;
      score = theScore;
   public String getName() { ... }
   public int getScore() { ... }
   public int compareTo(Object otherScore) { ... }
    // setName, setScore if you need them
}Then make an array:
Score [] scores = new Score[10];Then sort by score using (Arrays is "java.util.Arrays"):
Arrays.sort(scores);If you don't know how many scores you might have, make a List such as ArrayList, add the scores to it, then use "Collections.sort(scores);" instead of "Arrays.sort(scores);".