Question

Someone please edit my title to make this question more clear.

It’s easier to show using an example:

Contents of myfile.txt:

10/05/2011: 10
10/05/2011: 45.4
10/05/2011: 12.1

I want to read the numbers after the date (10, 45.4, 12.1) using BufferedReader and store in a list. How would I do that? I am using readLine() method right now to read my data, but reads the entire line. I don’t want to store date in my list, just the numbers. Is it possible?

Answer 1

Yes of course, although you will have to read the entire line first, once you have done that you can write a simple regular expression to pick what you want in this case numbers.

Alternatively since the numbers are always after “:”, this will also work

String[] parts = myReadLine.split(":");
String numbers = parts[1];