Token arrays

[Kamui]

Is there a way to make an array of tokens from StringTokenizer? If so, how would I use it in a for or while loop to increase the size of the array.

[Kram]

could you give an example of what you want to do, sorry im a bit confused

[Kamui]

I am trying to read in 2 lines from a text file. The first line is the numbers of the dogs who came in 1st-4th place. The second line is the number of each dog and its breed(i.e. 24 Collie 9 Beagle). I want to know the easiest way to compare the numbers on the first line to the number and breed on the second line and output the rank and breed in order from 1st-4th. I was thinking an array of tokens gotten from using StringTokenizer might be a shorter way of doing this.

[Kram]

the String class has a split() method which will return an array of strings equal to the number of strings in the line seperated by a specified delimeter.

ie, if you read in the line of the text file into a varaible called "line" you could do:

stringArray = line.split(" ");

where stringArray is an array of strings. The only problem i can see is that the number of elements in the stringArray may have to be calculated first. Becuase once you define an array, you cannot change its size.

so I would firstly count the number of spaces in the line, then create the stringArray with the number of spaces as the size. Then use the split() method.

Once you have the array defined, do the same with the second line, and then compare elements in both arrays.

does this help

[sjalle]

This is the easiest solution I could think of, there is no checking on valid input, if you dont have the dogs and rank line in sync, it just dies...

import java.util.*;

class Dog implements Comparator {
public int number=-1;
public String breed=null;
public int rank=-1;
public Dog () {}
public Dog (int number, String breed) {
this.number=number;
this.breed=breed;
}
public void setRank(int rank) {
this.rank=rank;
}
public String toString() {
return "rank: "+rank+"\tnumber: "+number+"\tbreed: "+breed;
}
public int compare(Object o1, Object o2) {
Dog dog1=(Dog)o1;
Dog dog2=(Dog)o2;
return dog1.rank-dog2.rank;
}
public boolean equals(Object obj) {
Dog aDog=(Dog)obj;
return aDog.rank==this.rank;
}
}
public class DogRun {
public static String [] lines={ // a mock file...
"9 12 7 2",
"2 Collie 12 Pitbull 9 Mutt 7 Wolf"
};
public static void main(String[] args) {
DogRun dogRun1 = new DogRun(lines);
}
public DogRun(String [] lines) {
ArrayList dogList=new ArrayList();
Hashtable ht=new Hashtable();
String [] ranks=lines[0].split(" ");
String [] numBreed=lines[1].split(" ");

// make dogs
for (int i=0; i<numBreed.length; i+=2) {
Integer number=new Integer(numBreed[i]);
String breed=numBreed[i+1];
Dog aDog=new Dog(number.intValue(),breed);
ht.put(number,aDog);
dogList.add(aDog);
}
// rank dogs
for (int i=0; i<ranks.length; i++) {
Integer number=new Integer(ranks[i]);
Dog aDog=(Dog)ht.get(number);
aDog.setRank(i+1);
}
// sort ranked dogs
java.util.Collections.sort(dogList,new Dog());
// print results
for (int i=0; i<dogList.size(); i++) {
System.out.println(dogList.get(i));
}
}
}