Basic compile problem: cannot find symbol

[Stan Lederer]

Howdy,

I found a nice CSV parser at http://ostermiller.org/. I downloaded the zip file, unzipped it, and I now have a jar file and a test program to use it. But I can't get my test program to compile.

Here's the test program.

import java.io.StringReader;

public class CSVTester {
    public static void main (String [ ] args) {
        // Parse the data
        String[][] values = CSVParser.parse(
                                            new StringReader(
                                                             "hello,world\n" +
                                                             "how,are,you"
                                                             )
                                            );

        // Display the parsed data
        for (int i=0; i<values.length; i++){
            for (int j=0; j<values[i].length; j++){
                System.out.println(values[i][j]);
            }
            System.out.println("-----");
        }
    }
}

Here's my compile statement:

javac -cp ./ostermillerutils-1.08.02/ostermillerutils-1.08.02.jar CSVTester.java

The jar file does exist in the path.

Here's the error I get:
CSVTester.java:6: cannot find symbol
symbol : variable CSVParser
location: class CSVTester
String[][] values = CSVParser.parse(
^
1 error

What am I doing wrong? Do I need to import the package? If so, how do I determine its name?

Thanks very much.

[Matthew Brown]

Yes, you need to import it. To find out the package, look at the documentation (or dig around in the Jar file, but the documentation should cover it).

A quick look at the site you linked to shows this: http://ostermiller.org/utils/javadoc/CSVParser.html, which says the package is called com.Ostermiller.util.

[Stan Lederer]

Matthew Brown wrote:Yes, you need to import it. To find out the package, look at the documentation (or dig around in the Jar file, but the documentation should cover it).

A quick look at the site you linked to shows this: http://ostermiller.org/utils/javadoc/CSVParser.html, which says the package is called com.Ostermiller.util.

Hi,

I tried importing com.Ostermiller.util but I get this error:

CSVTester.java:2: package com.Ostermiller does not exist
import com.Ostermiller.util;
^
CSVTester.java:7: cannot find symbol
symbol : variable CSVParser
location: class CSVTester
String[][] values = CSVParser.parse(
^
2 errors

[Matthew Brown]

You need to import the contents of the package. So import com.Ostermiller.util.CSVParser or com.Ostermiller.util.*

[Stan Lederer]

Matthew Brown wrote:You need to import the contents of the package. So import com.Ostermiller.util.CSVParser or com.Ostermiller.util.*

Excellent, Matthew, That did it. Thank you. Now I get an error about an unreported exception but I think I know how to deal with that.