Thread: While loop only runs one time?

I have a arrayList with multiple entries.
And I would like to grab the first entry and the look in a file and grab a certain line.
After that I would like to grab the second entry from the arrayList and look that one up in a file.

Now I made this code for it:

for (int i = 0; i < arrayList_Code_Sorted.size(); i++) {
				String code = arrayList_Code_Sorted.get(i);
 
				//
				//
				while (sc.hasNextLine()) {
					// Grab very line separate. 
					String line = sc.nextLine(); 
					// Split the line by ever "tab". 
					String value[] = line.split("\t");
					// Get start  
					String start = value[2];
					// Get end 
					String end = value[3];
					// Get strand 
					String strand = value[1];
 
					String possible = start + "_" + end + "_" + strand;
 
					//System.out.println(line);
 
					//
					if (possible.equals(code)) {
						//
						System.out.println(line);
					}
 
				}
			}

I expected this to do what I would like.
But it only looks up the first value of the arrayList in the file.
And that is it.

Why doesn't it do the while loop more often?

I know the for loop works, but the while loop only gets activated the first time...

Hello Purple01!

Firstly, It would help if you posted a complete sample of your code and file so we can test it.
Have you stepped through your code with a debugger to see if the while loop executed?
Add to your code an else block with a descriptive message. ie

else
{
   System.out.println(line +" doesn't equal code.");
}

I'm guessing the while loop is working. It is just that the if statement is evaluated to false after the first time and this happens because of the sc.hasNextLine(). Maybe it compares the value from the list with the same (the first) line of the file. Try printing both values (from the list and the file) to see what's going on.

Hope this helps.

I found the solution.
Thanks for the help you gave.