Trying to Read In Values Into Hash

Question

I am reading in a file...and i have this file being read
Fileds:Name|Address|SS
john|billsbury drive|030303030
how do i make a hash table so that when my tokener reads Name, it could store john so that it would be
Name = John
Address = billsbuy drive
etc.
You will see that i am using an array to get the different names of fields, but this is not gonna work because I never know how big my array really is. So please help.
here is my code wher e i read in my info from file.
import java.io.*;
import java.util.*;
import java.text.*;
import java.util.Date;
import java.lang.*;
public class file {
public static void main(String[] args)
// Display today's date using a default fomat for the current locale
DateFormat defaultDate = DateFormat.getDateInstance();
System.out.println(defaultDate.format(new Date()));
// Display Current time using a short time format for the current locale
DateFormat shortTime = DateFormat.getTimeInstance(DateFormat.SHORT);
System.out.println(shortTime.format(new Date()));
// Display date and time using a long format for both
DateFormat longTimestamp = DateFormat.getDateTimeInstance(DateFormat.FULL, DateFormat.FULL);
System.out.println(longTimestamp.format(new Date()));
// Declare Variables
StringBuffer desc;
BufferedReader in = null;
// Keep looking through the file while it is still not end of file
try
// Opens the file and reads it
File theFile = new File("23133202.2");
in = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(theFile));
// Get Length of File, and see how big it is
long filelength = theFile.length();
Date lastModified = new java.util.Date(theFile.lastModified());
String str = new String("");
char ch = (char)179;
int i=0, x, y, a, b, c, d;
int fromIndex = 0;
String name;
int fieldCount = 0;
// Read the file line by line using a Token
while((str = in.readLine()) != null){
StringTokenizer st = new StringTokenizer(str,":");
int count = st.countTokens();
String[] dataField = new String[1000];
// tokener contains all the field variables
String tokener = new String("");
while(st.hasMoreTokens())
tokener = st.nextToken();
//System.out.println(tokener);
//System.out.println(str);
// Get Group Names, and Start Inserting Data Into Database
if (str.indexOf("Group") != -1) {
tokener = st.nextToken();
x = tokener.indexOf("\u00B3");
name = tokener;
// y = tokener.indexOf("IDNR");
// a = tokener.indexOf("LASTNAME");
// b = tokener.indexOf("UNIQID");
// c = tokener.indexOf("EXAMFILE");
System.out.println(x);
System.out.println("I want" + " " + name);
// System.out.println(y);
} else if (str.indexOf("Fields") != -1) {
tokener = st.nextToken();
System.out.println("SOMETHING NEW");
StringTokenizer tk = new StringTokenizer(str,"\u00B3");
String tok = new String("");
while(tk.hasMoreTokens()) {
tok = tk.nextToken();
dataField[fieldCount] = tok;
System.out.println("IN BABY" + " " + dataField[fieldCount]);
fieldCount ++;
} else {
System.out.println("Not What I want" + " " + tokener);
} // end the main while
in.close();
// end try
catch (Exception e)
try {
in.close();
catch (Exception ignore) { }
e.printStackTrace();
// end catch...in.close();

Answer 1

By decyphering your code again, I relialised that the first field is present in your file, so, here is your code:
import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileReader;
import java.text.DateFormat;
import java.util.Date;
import java.util.StringTokenizer;
import java.util.Vector;
import java.util.Hashtable;
public class file {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
// Display today's date using a default fomat for the current locale
        DateFormat defaultDate = DateFormat.getDateInstance();
        System.out.println(defaultDate.format(new Date()));
// Display Current time using a short time format for the current locale
        DateFormat shortTime = DateFormat.getTimeInstance(DateFormat.SHORT);
        System.out.println(shortTime.format(new Date()));
// Display date and time using a long format for both
        DateFormat longTimestamp = DateFormat.getDateTimeInstance(DateFormat.FULL, DateFormat.FULL);
        System.out.println(longTimestamp.format(new Date()));
// Declare Variables
        StringBuffer desc;
        BufferedReader in = null;
// Keep looking through the file while it is still not end of file
        try {
// Opens the file and reads it
            File theFile = new File("23133202.2");
            in = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(theFile));
            String keyLine = in.readLine(); // Get Keys
            String valueLine = in.readLine(); // Get values
            StringTokenizer keys = new StringTokenizer(keyLine, ":|");
            keys.nextToken(); // Ignore the 'fields:' entry
            StringTokenizer values = new StringTokenizer(valueLine, "|");
            Hashtable yourHashtable = new Hashtable();
            while (keys.hasMoreTokens()) {
                String key = keys.nextToken();
                String value = values.nextToken();
                yourHashtable.put(key, value);
            System.out.println("yourHashtable = " + yourHashtable);
// end try
        catch (Exception e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        finally {
            try {
                in.close();
            } catch (Exception ignore) {
// end catch...in.close();
}The output this produced is:
06-Nov-01
20:30
06 November 2001 20:30:06 o'clock GMT
yourHashtable = {Name=john, SS=030303030, Address=billsbury drive}
HTH,
Manuel Amago.