Reading text files and EOF

Question

I am attempting to read in blocks of data from a text file separated by a blank line. When the BufferedReader hits the first blank line it ends. I retyped the test text file and still cannot get it to continue to read the entire file; just the first block.
fReader = new FileReader( textFile );
bReader = new BufferedReader( fReader );
line = bReader.readLine();
while( line ! = null ){
do stuff;
bReader.close()
The format of my textFile is:
100
some name
type 1
type 2
101
some other name
type 1
type 2
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

Hi,
I saw that BigDaddyLoveHandles already helped you a lot but I wanted to add a little something to that, because from what I understood you need to keep the blocks together.
public static void main(String[] args) {
          BufferedReader theReader = null;
          try {
               theReader = new BufferedReader(new FileReader("pathToYourFile"));
               String line;
               StringBuilder theBuilder = new StringBuilder();
               while ((line = theReader.readLine()) != null){
                    if (line.isEmpty()){
                         doStuff(theBuilder.toString());
                         theBuilder = new StringBuilder();
                    }else {
                         theBuilder.append(line).append(System.getProperty("line.separator"));
               doStuff(theBuilder.toString());
          } catch (IOException e) {
               e.printStackTrace();
          } finally{
               if (theReader != null)
                    try {
                         theReader.close();
                    } catch (IOException e) {
                         e.printStackTrace();
     }This actually allows your method doStuff to get the whole block vs. line by line.
Regards