Re: parsing CSV data with quotation marks

On Thu, 08 May 2008 00:11:51 +0000, Stefan Ram wrote:


By grammar, this is where things are headed:

        firstName = "Brenda";
        lastName = "Lee";

but maybe I'm not using Scanner correctly because guests.get(0) is the
whole line, whereas I expected useDelimiter() to break it into smaller
pieces based on using a comma as the delimiter. I'll re-read the Sun
tutorial, http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/essential/io/
scanning.html, but that's what I thought they were doing.

thufir@arrakis:~/bcit-comp2611-lab4$
thufir@arrakis:~/bcit-comp2611-lab4$ cat src/a00720398/labs/Lab4.java
/**
 * Lab4.java
 */

package a00720398.labs;

import java.util.*;
import java.io.*;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import a00720398.util.*;
import a00720398.data.*;

public class Lab4 {
        public static void main (String[] args) {
// scan();
// }

// public static void scan(){
                Scanner s = null;
                ArrayList<String> guests = new ArrayList<String>();

                try {

                        //Scanner s = new Scanner(input).useDelimiter("\
\s*fish\\s*");
                        s = new Scanner(new BufferedReader(new FileReader
("guests.txt"))).useDelimiter("/,");
                        while (s.hasNext()) {
                                String guest = s.next();
                                guests.add(guest);
                        }
                } catch (IOException e) {
                        System.out.println(e.getMessage());
                        e.printStackTrace();
                } finally {
                        if (s != null) {
                                s.close();
                        }
                }

        System.out.println(guests.get(0));

        }
}

thufir@arrakis:~/bcit-comp2611-lab4$

thanks,

Thufir