Looping through an input file

[Knackers]

Hi Guys,

I am trying to process the data in a text file. Problem is that the data is in a strange format. The data is a bunch of attributes about Dogs - but instead of having the data for each dog in the file on a single line (which would just allow you to use the StringTokeniser to break it up), it is spread accross 3 lines, in the following format:

<ID> <breed>
<temperament>
<neutered?> <age> <length of stay>
123 Kelpie
friendly, active
no 2.4 4

Each dog (therefore each 3 lines) must be processed seperately. I have been sucessful in processing this data for the first dog in the file, but I am a bit stuck on how I should loop through the rest. I was thinking that I could use a 'for' loop, but that would require knowing how many lines there are in the file - is there anyway of knowing this?

Does anyone else have any ideas on how I might so this?

Cheers

 

[Knackers]

Why is it that as soon as you post something, you manage to work it out anyway?

I just declared a boolan eof = false,

then just used a 'while' loop, testing to see if readLine = Null to break out of the loop.

Cheers