Question

I have a text file that has the following format:

1234

ABC123 1000 2000

The first integer value is a weight and the next line has three values, a product code, weight and cost, and this line can be repeated any number of times. There is a space in between each value.

I have been able to read in the text file, store the first value on the first line into a variable, and then the subsequent lines into an array and then into a list, using first readline.split(”).

To me this seems an inefficient way of doing it, and I have been trying to find a way where I can read from the second line where the product codes, weights and costs are listed down into a list without the need of using an array. My list control contains an object where I am only storing the weight and cost, not the product code.

Does anyone know how to read in a text file, take in some values from the file straight into a list control?

Thanks

Answer 1

What you do is correct. There is no generalized way of doing it, since what you did is that you descirbed the algorithm for it, that has to be coded or parametrized somehow.