Thread: How to compare the current token with upcoming or previous token using Scanner (or some alternative)?

Say I am reading in a text file that has String codes that represents rows of seats on an aircraft.

Here is what a line from the file would look like -

1A XXX XXX XXX  1D  1G XXX XXX XXX XXX  1J
 3A XXX XXX XXX  3D  3G XXX XXX XXX XXX  3J 
XXX XXX XXX XXX XXX XXX XXX XXX XXX  8H  8J 
 9A  9B XXX XXX  9D  9E  9G XXX XXX  9H  9J

The alphanumeric code refers to an airline seat, the "XXX" refers to a non-seat (aisle).
So you can gather from this snippet that if a token contains an "A" or "J", it's a window seat.
But, what is the best way to see if it's an aisle seat? The only way I can think of to check if the token is an aisle seat is that if the current token represents a seat, but the next token is "XXX", OR the last token was "XXX", it's an aisle seat.
I am not sure how I would program that though. I represent the current token using

String word = lineScan.next()

So, the current token is represented as lineScan.next(). If I want to compare word with a previous or upcoming token on the line, how would I do that?
Would an if statement like this valid?

 if (word.equals(lineScan.next())

I am guessing that could read the next token, but I want to make sure I am not moving the scanner to the next token by doing that.

Really, I am just stuck here and would like some guidance.

Thanks!

interesting. I have no experience with streamtokenizer yet. I will do some reading up on it and see if it helps me out.

thanks!

--- Update ---

I did more research and it looks like reading in the line as a String and then splitting it using the String.split method would be even more ideal.