parsing file with scanner...

[mia_tech]

guys, how could I parse a file that contains answers and questions in the form of:

Which of the following types are supertypes of Rectangle?
A) PrintStream
B) Shape
C) RectangularShape
D) Object
E) String
Select all that apply:
answer: BCD

my intent is to separate the question from the answer and put them both in an array that takes in question, answers, but I'm used to work with BufferedReader instead of Scanner which is the case here.... this is what I have so far, but is not doing the job

PHP Code:

public void read(Scanner in) throws IOException
    {
       String answers = "answer:";
        while(in.hasNextLine())
        {
            while(in.nextLine())
            if(!in.hasNext(answers))
            {
                q = in.nextLine();//getting the question
            }
            else
            {
                in.useDelimiter("answer:");
                a = in.next();//getting the answer
            }
       addQuestion(new Question(q, a));
   } 


[brad211987]

Once you have the line of answers, you could set up a loop to go over each character in that String.

answers = answers.trim();

for (int x = 0 ; x < answers.length ; ++x)
{
    switch (answers.charAt(x))
    {
        case 'A': //do PrintStream Logic
    }
}

This should work in principal, might have to play a bit.

[mia_tech]

thanks finally got it working... did something like this

PHP Code:

while(in.hasNext)
{
line = in.nextLine();
if(!line.contains("answer:"))
   {
      question += //adding question here
    }
if(line.contains("answer:"))
   {
       answer = //add answer here
    }
addQuestion(new Question(question, answer));
}