I have been beating my head up against a wall on this one. I feel like I have the corect spaces in my substring but obviously somethings wrong. What I am trying to do is read a text file and parse out the pieces like countryName and countryCapital to later be put into an object that gets stored in array for sorting and searching. For some reason I keep getting a
string index out of range exception. here is my code for the parsing, I have also attached the text file.
import java.io.*;
public class Main {
/**
* @param args the command line arguments
*/
public static void main(String[] args)throws IOException {
// TODO code application logic here
FileReader fis1 = new FileReader("Countries.Summer2012.txt");
BufferedReader br1 = new BufferedReader(fis1);
String inputString;
String countryName;
String countryCapital;
String countryRegion;
int countryRegNbr;
int countryPopulation;
inputString = br1.readLine();//reads one complete line (record) from the input file into inputString.
System.out.println(inputString);
while (inputString != null)
{
countryName = inputString.substring(0,24).trim();
System.out.println (" some Name read in was:" + countryName);
countryCapital = inputString.substring(24,40).trim();
System.out.println (" some cap read in was:" + countryCapital);
countryRegion = inputString.substring(40,64).trim();
System.out.println (" some reg read in was:" + countryRegion);
countryRegNbr = Integer.parseInt(inputString.substring(64,72).trim());
System.out.println (" some regnbr read in was:" + countryRegNbr);
countryPopulation = Integer.parseInt(inputString.substring(72).trim());
System.out.println (" some Name pop in was:" + countryPopulation);
inputString = br1.readLine();
System.out.println(inputString);
}// end while loop
br1.close();
}
}
