Using delimiter when reading a file

Question

I have little experience using delimiters and i need to read a text file that stores several objects whose data is stored in single lines separate by commas (\",\"). The sep

Answer 1

I think you want to call .next() which returns a String instead of .nextLine(). Your .nextLine() call is moving past the current line.

Scanner read = new Scanner (new File("datafile.txt"));
   read.useDelimiter(",");
   String title, category, runningTime, year, price;

   while(read.hasNext())
   {
       title = read.next();
       category = read.next();
       runningTime = read.next();
       year = read.next();
       price = read.next();
     System.out.println(title + " " + category + " " + runningTime + " " + year + " " + price + "\n"); //just for debugging
   }
   read.close();