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Java parseInteger throwing error

I have the following code snippet from my tester class.

     FileReader freader=new FileReader(filename);
     BufferedReader inputFile=new BufferedReader(freader);
     int numScores = 0;
     String playerType = "";
     String nameHome = "";
     String playerName = "";
     String home = "";
     String location = "";
     int score = 0;
     String date = "";
     double courseRating = 0;
     int courseSlope = 0;

     ArrayList<Player> players = new ArrayList<Player>();

     while (inputFile.read()!= -1) {
        numScores = Integer.parseInt(inputFile.readLine()); 
        playerType = inputFile.readLine();
        nameHome = inputFile.readLine();
        StringTokenizer st = new StringTokenizer(nameHome,",");
        playerName = st.nextToken();
        home = st.nextToken();

The program compiles, however when the tester is run, I get the following output error.

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NumberFormatException: For input string: ""
at java.lang.NumberFormatException.forInputString(NumberFormatException.java:65)
at java.lang.Integer.parseInt(Integer.java:592)
at java.lang.Integer.parseInt(Integer.java:615)
at PlayerTest.main(PlayerTest.java:34)

I've tried researching this and what I fould was there's possibly a space when it changes the String that is read from the data file and converts it to an int. I tried reading directly into a strin, trimming the string, then converting to the int, but it got the same error.

This was the code that replaced numScores = Integer.parseInt(inputFile.readLine());

        tempScores = inputFile.readLine();
           tempScores.trim();
           System.out.println(tempScores);
           numScores = Integer.parseInt(tempScores);

Any help is appreciated.

*edited to show sample data Sample data from file

3
B
James Smith, Strikers
FWB Bowling, 112,09/22/2012
White Sands, 142,09/24/2012
Cordova Lanes,203,09/24/2012
Solution

  • Possibly, your File contains empty lines. These are read as "" and therefore cannot be converted to int.

    Furthermore, it is possible that you read the first character of each line by the read-statement in the header of the while-loop, so that it is ignored in the readline command. Then a number of length 1 (like "1") would become an empty line.

    In any case, the construction of your loop is a bug.