Extracting strings from files?

[Sam Bluesman]

If i have a text file with each line containing two bits of information about rooms, such as:

 
   room1, 120
   room2, 125
 

whereby the first bit of information refers to the room name which should be stored in a String array called roomNames and the second bit refers to the capacity of the rooms which should be stored in a String array called
roomCapacity, how do i seperate the two so that this can happen?

i was thinking tokenizers... but dont know how to use them to do this
cheers
[ February 02, 2006: Message edited by: Sam Bluesman ]

[Ernest Friedman-Hill]

Hi Sam,

In JDK 1.4 and later, the String.split() method is easier to use than the StringTokenizer class.

String line = "Room1, 120";
String[] data = line.split("[ \t,]+");

The argument to split() is a regular expression, which scares some people, but they're really not so bad. The expression I've shown will break tokens at any combination of space, tab, and comma characters.

[Sam Bluesman]

Thanks. That worked a treat!