Reading strings and integers from a text file

Question

I want to read the contents of a text file and print them to screen, but am having problems reading integers. The file contains employee's personal info and basically looks like this:
Warren Laing
32 //age, data type is int
M //gender, data type is String
Sharon Smith
44
F
Here's what I've done so far. The method should continue reading the file until there's no lines left. When I call it from main, I get a numberFormatException error. I'm not sure why because the data types of the set and get methods are correct, the right packages have been imported, and I'm sure I've used Integer.parseInt() correctly (if not, pls let me know). Can anyone suggest why I'm getting errors, or where my code is going wrong?
many thanks
Chris
public void readFile() throws IOException{
BufferedReader read = new BufferedReader(new FileReader("personal.txt"));
int age = 0;
String input = "";
input = read.readLine();
while (input != null){
setName(input);
age = Integer.parseInt(input);
setAge(age);
input = read.readLine();
setGender(input);
System.out.println("Name: " + getName() + " Age: " + getAge() + " Gender: " + getGender());
read.close();

Answer 1

To answer your question - I'm teaching myself java and I haven't covered enumeration classes yet.
With the setGender("Q") scenario, the data in the text file has already been validated by other methods before being written to the file. Anyway I worked out my problems were caused by "input = read.readLine()" being in the wrong places. The code below works fine though I've left out the set and get methods for the time being.
Chris
public static void readFile()throws IOException{
String name = "";
String gender = "";
int age = 0;
BufferedReader read = new BufferedReader(new FileReader("myfile.txt"));
String input = read.readLine();
while(input != null){
name = input;
input = read.readLine();
gender = input;
input = read.readLine();
age = Integer.parseInt(input);
input = read.readLine();
System.out.println("Name: " + name + " Gender: " + gender + " Age: " + age);
read.close();