I am taking in txt from a txt file and trying to store it in an arraylist. In the txt file the which mean ballot are not together instead the teacher placed it on a separate line. So we have to get all of the ballots together but i am not able to get them to be all together she placed the first ballot on the line like in example below. And we have to make the rest of them together. I am using a fileinputstream to collect the txt from the textfile.
the text looks like this :
person 1 person 2 person 3 <b> 1 2 3 <b> 1 3 2
I want it to look like this
person 1 person 2 person 3 <b> 1 2 3 <b> 1 3 2
BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(System.in));
System.out.print("Enter file name: ");
Scanner keyboard = new Scanner(System.in);
String fileName = keyboard.next();
File file = new File(fileName);
ArrayList<String> ballot;
ballot = new ArrayList<String>();
FileInputStream fstream = new FileInputStream(fileName);
DataInputStream ds = new DataInputStream(fstream);
BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(ds));
// Pattern p;
// Matcher m;
String strLine;
String inputText = "";
String newline = System.getProperty("line.separator");
while ((strLine = br.readLine()) != null) {
ballot.add(strLine);
}