How to compare a value with an integer which is stored in a text file

Question

I'm storing some values in a text file and each line looks like that, Cellid: -----, LAC: ------, Lat: ------, Long: --------- what I want to do is to compare the cellid that the phone currently operates, with the cellids from the text file and if it matched then print a marker in google maps. My question is how navigate in the text file while reading it. The file is stored in the phones sdcard.

Answer 1

Try this

First: add these in public area

public static final String Key_Cellid = "Cellid";
public static final String Key_LAC = "LAC";
public static final String Key_Lat = "Lat";
public static final String Key_Long = "Long";
ArrayList<HashMap<String,String>> values = new ArrayList<HashMap<String, String>>();

then add this method to seperate name and value for each item:

public void stringExtracter(String st){

 String mainStr = st;

    int items = 4; // Numbers of items in each line

    HashMap<String,String> hash = new HashMap<String, String>();

    for(int i=0; i<items; i++){
        String num="";
        int sep = mainStr.indexOf(":");
        String fst = mainStr.substring(0, sep);
        mainStr = mainStr.replaceFirst(fst+":", "");
        if(i<items - 1){
            sep = mainStr.indexOf(",");
            num = mainStr.substring(0, sep);
            mainStr = mainStr.replaceFirst(num+",", "");
        }
        else{
            num = mainStr;
            //mainStr = mainStr.replaceFirst(num+",", "");
        }

        hash.put(fst, num);
    }
     values.add(hash);
}

Now edit your code :

   //Find the directory for the SD Card using the API
//*Don't* hardcode "/sdcard"
File sdcard = Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory();

//Get the text file
File file = new File(sdcard,"file.txt");

//Read text from file

try {
    BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(file));
    String line;

    while ((line = br.readLine()) != null) {

       stringExtracter(line);
    }

   //here you can get only numbers from text and convert it to integer then compare it
}
catch (IOException e) {
    //You'll need to add proper error handling here
}

Know you can get data from values array list like:

for(int i=0;i<values.size();i++){
        HashMap<String,String> hash = values.get(i);
        System.out.println(hash.get(Key_Cellid));
        System.out.println(hash.get(Key_LAC));
        System.out.println(hash.get(Key_Lat));
        System.out.println(hash.get(Key_Long));
        System.out.println("--------------");
    }

Important Note:

I assumed no space in each line in text file

Cellid:123,LAC:456,Lat:223,Long:213

I stored numbers as string because that you should convert it to Integer or Double or what you want to using it in map.

Hope this help you.