scan.useDelimiter(",")

[Brett Freedman]

I'm trying to read in a comma delimited file with Scanner. This works for me with the default space delimiter but I want to use comma since I have some team names with two words.

Here is my code:

 
        int i=0, j=0;
        try
        {
            Scanner scan = new Scanner(playerFile.openStream());
            scan.useDelimiter(",");
            while (scan.hasNext())
            {
                if (j==10){i++;j=0;}
                
                String pteam = scan.next();
                String pposition = scan.next();
                String pname = scan.next();
                int shoots = scan.nextInt();
                int boards = scan.nextInt();
                int asts = scan.nextInt();
                int pct = scan.nextInt();
                
                teamname[i] = pteam;
                teamplayer[i][j] = new Player(pteam, pposition, pname, shoots, boards, asts, pct);
                
                j++;
            }
                        
            scan.close();
        }
        catch(IOException e)
        {

Here is part of my input file:

Boston College,G,Reggie Jackson,11,6,4,43
Boston College,G,Biko Paris,4,2,4,41
Boston College,G,Dallas Elmore,3,2,1,44
Boston College,C,Josh Southern,4,3,1,45
Boston College,F,Joe Trapani,12,6,1,44
Boston College,F,Corey Raji,9,6,1,54
Boston College,F,Tyler Roche,5,2,1,48
Boston College,F,Cortney Dunn,1,2,0,32
Boston College,F,Evan Ravenel,3,2,0,49
Boston College,G,Rakim Sanders,11,4,2,40
Duke,G,Jon Scheyer,14,4,5,40
Duke,C,Brian Zoubek,3,7,1,62
Duke,F,Kyle Singler,14,7,2,41
Duke,F,Lance Thomas,4,5,1,45
Duke,F,Miles Plumlee,4,5,0,57
Duke,G,Andre Dawkins,4,1,0,39
Duke,G,Nolan Smith,14,3,3,44
Duke,F,Ryan Kelly,1,1,0,36
Duke,F,Mason Plumlee,4,3,1,46
Duke,G,Jordan Davidson,0,0,0,0

[Ireneusz Kordal]

Hi,

you must use , (comma) and \n (new line) as your delimiters, since lines are separated by new lines.
Try this:

 scan.useDelimiter("[,\n]");  

[Brett Freedman]

Ireneusz Kordal wrote:Hi,

you must use , (comma) and \n (new line) as your delimiters, since lines are separated by new lines.
Try this:

 scan.useDelimiter("[,\n]");  

Thanks, Ireneusz! This didn't entirely clear up my problem but got me going in the right direction. There were apparently some extra non-visible characters tacked onto the last field of each line mucking up the works. I ended up scanning in one line at a time, splitting that string into tokens and trimming the last field.