Java: Error with reading in file with delimiter

Question

I have a file with multiple fields that i need to store individually into an array.

Steve;stiffy;123;88
Sam;sammy;456;55

But when i try storing them i keep getting error saying java.util.NoSuchElementException

Here is my code for storing the data

void loadCustomer(){

    try {
        Scanner sc = new Scanner(new File("CustomerInfo.txt"));
        sc.useDelimiter(";");
        while (sc.hasNext())
        {
            cusName.add(sc.next());
            cusUser.add(sc.next());
            cusPass.add(sc.next());
            cusCCNum.add(sc.next());
        }
}

I could get it to work by changing

cusCCNum.add(sc.next());

to

cusCCNum.add(sc.nextLine());

but it will ignore the delimiter and when i print out cusCCNum.get(1), it will display

;88

instead of

Where did i go wrong?

Can you provide the line number and stack trace for your error? It might provide us some insight on where the problem lies. — Colin D, Apr 17 '13 at 12:29
accepted answer on this question looks helpful: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3493230/scanner-usedelimiter — Colin D, Apr 17 '13 at 12:31
thanks guys for the input, using `sc.useDelimiter("[;\\n]");` and `scanner.useDelimiter(";|\n");` solved my problem — user1958567, Apr 17 '13 at 12:49

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 17 '13 at 12:29

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There is no delimiter between 88 and Sam..

  scanner.useDelimiter(";|\n");

answered Apr 17 '13 at 12:29

Eugene

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score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 17 '13 at 12:26

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Use String tokenizer instead of delimiter. Get input as a string and parse it by ; character as token.

Learn, how to use stringtokenizer here

answered Apr 17 '13 at 12:26

Tugrul

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Apr 17 '13 at 12:46

You are causing the exception while you are calling the 4 next elements for each one check if there is 1 next element, this would do the following:

while (RecentElement is not the last one)
{
    Read (RecentElement + 1)
    Read (RecentElement + 2)
    Read (RecentElement + 3)
    Read (RecentElement + 4)
}

And somewhen you get the exception of the next() method because you access an element that is just not there:

Throws: NoSuchElementException - if no more tokens are available

You should use the new line as a delimiter and for each new line parse the data from the record, for example using the split function:

   sc.useDelimiter("\n");      
   while (sc.hasNext())
   {
       for(String g: sc.next().split(";"))
         System.out.println(g);          
   }

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Apr 17 '13 at 12:48

Looks like you need to read each line, token it using delimeter and set values to array.

I could do it via StringTokenizer.

while (sc.hasNextLine())            {               
                StringTokenizer st =  new StringTokenizer(sc.nextLine(),";");               
                while (st.hasMoreElements()) {
                    System.out.println(st.nextElement());
                }
            }

I am surprised and need to read more on Scanner api to see why its not working with scanner.

Java: Error with reading in file with delimiter

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