Hi guys,
            I am working on this program that will read from a file and store each line in an array. However, I want each line stored in an array of an object which i created. I will really appreciate any help on this. I'm gonna paste the class I created which i want the array to be stored by line and also the text file I want to read into it.

Here's my vehicle class

public class Vehicle {
private String vin;
private String make;
private String model;
private int year;
private String color;
private double mileage;
public Vehicle(String aVin, String amake, String amodel, int yr, String acolor,
double mile){

vin= aVin;
make = amake;
model=amodel;
year=yr;
color= acolor;
mileage= mile;

rentalPrice= arentalPrice;
}
public String getvin(){
return vin;
}
public String getmake(){
return make;
}
public String getmodel(){
return model;
}
public int getyear(){
return year;
}
public String getColor(){
return color;
}
public double getmileage(){
return mileage;
}
public double getPrice(){
return Price;
}

public double getVehiclePrice(){
return lPrice;
}
}

And the text file



Vehicle information
(vin, make, model, year, color, mileage, price)


The objective of the program is to ask the user to enter the vin and then based on the vin, the program will display the vehicle information while reducing the inventory of that car model by 1. I need help with reading each line into the array and identifying each line by the vin.


(hint on how to reduce the inventory will be greatly appreciated as well)
Thank you .

You need to be clear about your question. Reduce what inventory by 1? Anyhow if you can improve the Q, I would do this.

Anyhow see the StringTokenizer class http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/util/StringTokenizer.html

lemme give u an idea of reading your file, and idea of hadling your user input
use
Scanner input = new Scanner(new File("name of the file.extension");
int id = 1;//keeps track of your line id,  i think u wanted that in your prgram. right?
while(input.hasNextLine()){
//u need a condition to terminate this loop by telling user to type -1 at last line after they have entered the vehicles information finish
//so do this
String theLine = input.nextLine()
if(theLine == -1){
break;
}
//now u are good to go in reading your lines which has users data for each vehicle,  right?
//so say
String []parameters = theLine.split(", ";
//according to your Vehicle class constructor, u need the following ("try to add ---- int id", String aVin, String rentType, String amake, String amodel, int yr, String acolor,
//     double mile, double arentalPrice, boolean rentalS )
new Vehicle(id, parameters[0], parameters[1], parameter[2], parameter[3], ,  e.t.c, cast your int like Integer.parseInt(parameter[index]),  blah blah blah);
//u should know what to do with your vehicle object that u just initialize, maybe u have an array of it that u store each instance in,  as u wish
id++;
}//end of while loop

with this, i guess u shuld be able to read from file ,  sure, there are other approaches that works

@segsalerty,
Thanks for that, I'll be trying that code in just a little bit and will let you know if it works for me.
@mobinga, sesalerty,
I'm reading all the vehicle info from the file. The user only has to enter the vin and then the program should be able to display that particular vehicle info. Where inventory comes in is that, on entering the vin, I'm trying to make it ask the user if they want to check out that car and if the user says yes, the inventory should have decrease by one car (the exact car that the vin was entered into the system by the user)
Thank you so nuch for your help.

U may try reading, initializing and putting all the vehicle objects into a list, u can remove any object u want from the list,then before the program terminates, u delete the previous file and write the remaining objects in the list into a new file with the same name and extension

I used a String Tokenizer to get the separate values using the newline "\n" character as a delimiter, then I used another String Tokenizer to tokenize the tokens of the initial tokenizer using the comma "," as a delimiter, to get the number plus the vin, next to get the actual vin I did a substring of the initial supposed vin.

Next the vin was used as a key in a hashmap, while the entire details of the car was used as the value of that key.

As for[i] removing out of the inventory[/i], all I did was to remove the key the user specifies out of the hashmap.

You should get the logic from here onwards

Thanks for the help mobinga. I ran that program and it doesn't do anything. I wanted to check with you to see if there's anything else that needs to be done for it to run.
I'm sorry for asking that many questions, I'm just learning Java and a little confused.
I included the other classes I wrote maybe it has to do with them. I'm also gonna post my code that runs by manually inputting the data but like I initially posted, I'm needing help automating this process. Your code is in line with my reasoning, I just can't get it to run.
Thanks for taking the time out to help a brother.

For some reason, i couldn't upload these files as a text file so i ended up pasting each one in MsWord just to attach it here and to show you what i've done so far.
Thanks

ehen wats the problem? u jst wrote 3 classes with their respective constructors, and 2 of the classes are tied one to one relationship with the whole(Invoice), so wat do u wanna do with the code ?

I'm trying to use the main method to pull the text file i pasted at the top. Mobinga helped me with the code to hard code the file but for some reason, i can't get that to run in the main  program. I added the other classes i wrote if that will help in troubleshooting the problem. Thanks

2legit2qwt:

Thanks for the help mobinga. I ran that program and it doesn't do anything. I wanted to check with you to see if there's anything else that needs to be done for it to run.
I'm sorry for asking that many questions, I'm just learning Java and a little confused.
I included the other classes I wrote maybe it has to do with them. I'm also gonna post my code that runs by manually inputting the data but like I initially posted, I'm needing help automating this process. Your code is in line with my reasoning, I just can't get it to run.
Thanks for taking the time out to help a brother.

It waits for you to input a vin number. It does something.

Thanks for this post guys I was going through the same thing

Mobinga:


It waits for you to input a vin number. It does something.

Will that be at runtime? Reason I'm asking is because when I run it, nothing happens, the user isn't prompted for anything. I'm sorry just a little confused. Thanks

When you run the program input a vin and press enter! Damn.

I understand that but I'm saying program ain't running at all let alone prompt for anything. Nothing is coming up to type vin into.
Thanks

2legit2qwt:

I understand that but I'm saying program ain't running at all let alone prompt for anything. Nothing is coming up to type vin into.
Thanks

Dude, men its CLI, command line, not GUI. Compile and run, then type in anything!!!

Ok. Here is the program using "11V82" as the vin specified

http://ideone.com/czGqm

@Mobinga
I wanted to say thanks for helping out and being patient with me, i do appreciate your help and most especially your time.
@segsalerty

Thank you so much and i'm grateful that you took our time to help out as well.

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