So essentially what I want to do here is read in a text file line by line and format them like this:
Last name, Title, First name, Middle and then the birth/death date like MM/DD/YYYY
I read in dates like this:
Month, day, year
Mon. day, year
Mon day, year
MMDDYY
M/D/year
M-D-year
and names like this:
Last, Title First Middle (comma after name needed)
OR
Title First Middle Last
I've been working at this for a really long time and just cannot figure it out. Below is my pretty messy code that's been through a lot of changes in a desperate attempt to figure this out, thank you for your time anybody who wants to help me out (I'm a student) also here's an example of names that are read in:
Roger Veium MAY 12, 1908 JUNE 2, 1984
McDermott, James D. Jan. 4, 1914 Jul 1, 1970
Amy Chamberlain Sep. 28, 1975 09-06-95
Gross, Adam M. 01-03-77
Joseph Lisota April 9, 1964
Joseph W. Eisel Sep 3, 1990
Code:
public String[] readLines(String filename) throws IOException {
FileReader fileReader = new FileReader(filename);
BufferedReader bufferedReader = new BufferedReader(fileReader);
List<String> lines = new ArrayList<String>();
List<String> names = new ArrayList<String>();
String line = null;
String name = "";
int i;
int ind;
int indTemp;
int indTemp2;
boolean flag = false;
String[] monthsLong = {"JANUARY", "FEBRUARY", "MARCH", "APRIL", "MAY", "JUNE", "JULY", "AUGUST", "SEPTEMBER", "OCTOBER", "NOVEMBER", "DECEMBER"};
String[] monthsLongR = {" 01", "02", " 03", "04", "05", "06", "07", "08", " 09", "10", "11", "12"};
String[] monthsLow = {"JAN\\.", "FEB\\.", "MAR\\.","APR\\.", "MAY", "JUN\\.", "JUL\\.", "AUG\\.", "SEP\\.", "OCT\\.", "NOV\\.", "DEC\\."};
String[] monthsCaps = {" JAN", "FEB", " MAR", "APR", "MAY", "JUN", "JUL", "AUG", " SEP", "OCT", "NOV", "DEC"};
while ((line = bufferedReader.readLine()) != null) {
line = line.replaceAll("null", "");
line = line.replaceAll("-","/");
line = line.toUpperCase() ;
for(i = 0; i<12; i++)
{
line = line.replaceAll(monthsLong[i], monthsLongR[i]);
}
for(i = 0; i<12; i++)
{
line = line.replaceAll(monthsLow[i], monthsLongR[i]);
}
for(i = 0; i<12; i++)
{
line = line.replaceAll(monthsCaps[i], monthsLongR[i]);
}
line = line.replaceAll("\\s+", " ");
if (Character.toString(line.charAt(0)).equals(" "))
line = line.replaceFirst(" ", "");
/* name = line;
ind = name.indexOf(".");
indTemp = name.indexOf("0");
indTemp2 = name.indexOf("1");
if (ind > -1) {
System.out.println(" period");
ind = ind + 1;
flag = true;
}
if(flag == false) {
if(indTemp2 > indTemp){
ind = indTemp2 -1;
System.out.println(" 1");
}
if (indTemp > indTemp2){
ind = indTemp - 1;
System.out.println(" 2");
}
}
flag = false;
*/
// name = name.substring(0,ind);
lines.add(line);
}
bufferedReader.close();
return lines.toArray(new String[lines.size()]);
}