student record program

[docfish]

Hello, I'm supposed to write a program that reads in a text file called "Lab17a.dat". The file is organized with a separate character string on each line. This is a sequential file of characters, but the file is organized to store student records with three fields in each record. There is a name field, age field and a gpa field. Keep in mind that Java does not realize these are records. You, as programmer, need to convert the age string to an integer and the gpa string to a double.
This is what I have so far:

import java.io.*;

public class lab17a
{
	public static void main(String args[]) throws IOException
	{
		int count=1; 
		int age; double gpa;
		String name;
		File inFile = new File(args[0]);
		if (inFile.exists())
		{
			BufferedReader inStream = 
			new BufferedReader(new FileReader(inFile));				
			String inString;									
			while((inString = inStream.readLine()) != null)	
			{
			if(count==3)	
				{
					gpa=Double.parseDouble(inString);	//converts gpa
					System.out.println("gpa"+ gpa);
				}
				
			if(count==1)
			{
				name=inString;
				System.out.println( name); //gets the name
				
			}
			
			
		if(count==2)
			{
				age=Integer.parseInt(inString);	//converts age
				System.out.println("age" + age);
			}
				 
				} 
			  			
			inStream.close();    
		}
		else
		{
			System.out.println(inFile + " does not exist"); //if file does not exist
			
		}
		System.out.println();
	}
}

I was wondering if somebody could tell me if I'm on the right track or not. Thank you!

[destin]

I would recommend using the Scanner class for this. Here's a tutorial on how to use it (look at the "Reading From a File" part).

There are a lot of little bugs in your program. First of all, you're not increasing the counter anywhere... and using a counter is inefficient anyway. Instead, if you're going to use the BufferedReader class, then you should use the StringTokenizer class.

The Scanner class would be the easiest though.

Good luck!

[docfish]

I was looking around, and saw examples using those classes, but I don't think my teacher will let us use that yet, since we haven't gotten that far.

[destin]

I was looking around, and saw examples using those classes, but I don't think my teacher will let us use that yet, since we haven't gotten that far.

You're going to have to use something like that. You could also read in each line, then split it. eg:

String line;
while ((line = in.readLine()) != null) {
    String[] split = line.split(" ");
    
    name = split[0];
    age = Integer.parseInt(split[1]);
    gpa = Integer.parseInt(split[2]);
}

[docfish]

I think I found a different way to do it, I'm not really sure if it is right:

import java.io.*;
import java.text.DecimalFormat;

public class lab17a2
{
public static void main(String args[]) throws IOException
	{
		int count=0;
		int sum=0;
		int age; double gpa;
		String name;
		File inFile = new File(args[0]);
		BufferedReader inStream = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(inFile));	
		if (inFile.exists())
		{
			String inString;									
			while((inString = inStream.readLine()) != null)	
			{
			
				 name=inString; 
   				 System.out.println(name);
   				
	            inString = inStream.readLine(); 
    			age=Integer.parseInt(inString);   //converts age 
    			System.out.println(age); 
    		
    			inString = inStream.readLine(); 
             	gpa=Double.parseDouble(inString);   //converts gpa 
              	System.out.println(gpa); 
              
              
			} 
			

			  			
			inStream.close();    
		}
		else
		{
			System.out.println(inFile + " does not exist"); //if file does not exist
			
		}
		System.out.println();
	}
}

Also, I have a question, if I want to count the number of time that it diplays name, I know that I can use a for loop.

for(int a=1; a<??; a++)

What would be my upperbound though?
Thanks in advance!