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September 13th, 2010, 01:09 PM
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another array to use in another class?
Hi. I have a reader class (code below) that just reads over a text file and puts items into a comma-delimited array. Items in the text file are int positionCode and String positionTitle, in the form:
102,Manager
248,DeptHead
299,Assistant
etc...
My question is: Is there a way to put ONLY the position codes (int) into a separate array?
**I want to write a method in another class that finds the position code with the lowest value.**
Is putting them in a separate array the best way or should I do it another way and how?
Code:
import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
import java.io.FileReader;
import java.io.IOException;
/**
* reads in an employee's position in a department into memory
*/
public class PositionReader {
private BufferedReader in;
private Company Company;
/**
* constructor
* @param fileName
* @throws FileNotFoundException
*/
public PositionReader(String fileName, Company company) throws FileNotFoundException {
in = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(fileName));
this.Company = company;
}
/**
* reads a position from text file
* @return position
*/
public Position readPosition() {
String line;
try {
line = in.readLine();
if (line == null || line.trim().length() == 0) {
return null;
}
String[] fields = line.split(",");
int positionCode = Integer.parseInt(fields[0]);
String positionTitle = fields[1];
Position position = new Position(positionCode, positionTitle);
return position;
} catch (IOException e) {
return null;
}
}
public void close() throws IOException {
in.close();
}
}
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