Thread: How to read different data segments from a text file?

i am trying to read this data from a text file

//contains an account no. of type string followed by account balance of type double
3000 1200.00
1000 300.00
4000 8000.00
// the 0 represents the start of a new data segment
0
// contains a transaction type either DEP "deposit" or WID "withdrawal" of type String followed by an account no. of type String and "amount" of the particular transaction either
DEP 3000 600.00
WID 4000 2000.00
// the PRINT represents the end of file and print all the account information
PRINT

The question is, Read the data from the file, store the account information in objects in an array and perform the specific transactions and finally print the Information

i am able to read the text file and store the first data segment containing the account no and balance into an object in an array
however, my problem is reading the data segment from 0 and storing the transactions

PLEASE HELP..ANY SUGGESTIONS..
Regards
aNiL

You can use regular expressions matching. Read all the text file into a string, then try to identify patterns in it, compose regular expressions and apply them. For example, one regular expression may be used to identify different data segments, other regular expression can be used to parse some particular data segment and so on.

i am thankful for your support but using regular expressions matching is to advance for my course at this time.
i am looking for a piece of code which would include a while loop that will loop through the data storing the account information until "0" is found, when found Read transaction segment and if DEP call a deposit method which i already have else if WID call the withdrawal method. this would run until PRINT is found and when found print all account information

this is my code wHich is working 2 read the first segment
public void loadAccounts(String fileName)throws IOException{
Scanner in= new Scanner(new File(fileName));
while(in.hasNext()){
String no=in.next();
double bal=in.nextDouble();
BankAccount ba=new BankAccount(no,bal);
}

You can't use just "0" as a delimiter: you have numbers with zeros in your data, zeros in them will be interpreted as a delimiter. So you need to use a more complex delimiter, perhaps a symbol that is never used at all in the data.
If you want to do that without regex, one possible way may be to loop through every symbol of the read data, to remember indices of the delimiters (maybe, in an array). Then you loop through indices and read data segments between two adjacent indices.

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You can't use just "0" as a delimiter: you have numbers with zeros in your data, zeros in them will be interpreted as a delimiter. So you need to use a more complex delimiter, perhaps a symbol that is never used at all in the data.
If you want to do that without regex, one possible way may be to loop through every symbol of the read data, to remember indices of the delimiters (maybe, in an array). Then you loop through indices and read data segments between two adjacent indices.