Question

I’m a beginner, so please don’t blast my work so far 🙂
I’m trying to read in a CSV file and then see if it matches certain commands. Some of the data in the CSV has a period and I think it’s messing up when I’m trying to split it. When I try to dump my arrays to see what’s there, it always gets cut off after the period. Here is a data sample. Any help would be appreciated. Again I’m a beginner so simplicity would be appreciated.

Sample data

create,Mr. Jones,blah,blah
create,Mrs. Smith,blah,blah

public class TestHarness {
        public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException, FileNotFoundException {

    Scanner input = new Scanner(new File("C:\\Users\\Ree\\Desktop\\SPR\\commands.txt"));

    String[] validCommands = { "create", "move", "useWeapon", "search", "heal" };

    boolean proceed = false;

    while (!proceed)
    {
       for (int i = 0; i < validCommands.length; i++)
       {
          String line = input.next();
          String[] nline = line.split (",");

          if (nline[0].equals("create")) 
          {
            String soldierName = nline[1];
            String soldierType = nline[2];
            String weapon = nline[3];
            Soldier aSoldier = new Soldier(soldierName,weapon);

            System.out.println("Command: "+ nline[0] +","+ soldierName +","+ soldierType+","+ weapon);

            if (soldierType.equals("enlisted"))
            {
                Soldier s = new Enlisted(soldierName,weapon);
                System.out.println(s.toString());
            }
            else if (soldierType.equals("officer"))
            {
                Soldier s = new Officer(soldierName,weapon);
                System.out.println(s.toString());
            }
          }

          else if (nline[0].equals("useWeapon")) {
              System.out.print("weapon " + nline[0] + "\n");
          }
          else if (nline[0].equals("move")) {
              System.out.print("move " + nline[0] + "\n");
          }
          else if (nline[0].equals("search")) {
              System.out.print("search " + nline[0] + "\n");
          }
          else if (nline[0].equals("heal")) {
              System.out.print("heal " + nline[0] + "\n");
          }
        }
    }
}

}

Answer 1

Calling Scanner.next will only return the next word (separated by whitespace).

You need to call nextLine to read entire lines at a time.