I am trying to find the max and min of a line of text from a data file. Though there is plenty of lines of text in this data file.
DATA
-99 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 12345
10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 -99
10 20 30 40 50 -11818 40 30 20 10
32767
255 255
9 10 -88 100 -555 1000
10 10 10 11 456
-111 1 2 3 9 11 20 30
9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 0 -2 -989
12 15 18 21 23 1000
250 19 17 15 13 11 10 9 6 3 2 1 -455
9 10 -8 10000 -5000 1000
I have tried turning the lines into arrays and that has got me somewhere.
HERE IS MY CODE
import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.Scanner;
// It is called "Average". Don't mind that.
public class Average
{
public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException
{
Scanner file = new Scanner(new File("average.dat"));
String[] array = null;
while(file.hasNextLine())
{
//Storing the ints from the data file into an array.
String line = file.nextLine();
String[] str = line.split("\\s+");
array = new String[str.length];
for (int i = 0; i < str.length; i++){
array[i] = (str[i]);
}
System.out.println("Max:" + Average.getMax(array));
System.out.println("Min:" + Average.getMin(array));
System.out.println();
}
}
//Simple way of getting max value. Nabbed it off google.
public static String getMax(String[] inputArray)
{
String maxValue = inputArray[0];
for(int i=1;i < inputArray.length;i++){
if(inputArray[i].compareTo(maxValue)>0){
maxValue = inputArray[i];
}
}
return maxValue;
}
//Simple way of getting min value. Took off google as well.
public static String getMin(String[] inputArray){
String minValue = inputArray[0];
for(int i=1;i<inputArray.length;i++){
if(inputArray[i].compareTo(minValue)<0){
minValue = inputArray[i];
}
}
return minValue;
}
}
HERE IS MY OUTPUT
Max:9
Min:-99
Max:9
Min:-99
Max:50
Min:-11818
Max:32767
Min:32767
Max:255
Min:255
Max:9
Min:-555
Max:456
Min:10
Max:9
Min:-111
Max:9
Min:-2
Max:23
Min:1000
Max:9
Min:-455
Max:9
Min:-5000
As you can see, the minimum value is correct. Though, the max value is not? It gives me 9 for no reason on some and I do not know why. You may ask "Why didn't you just make the array an int[] instead of a String[]?" I don't know how to copy the ints from the data file into an integer array. I only really know how to do it with a String array. Does anyone know the right way to do this?
You can compare using int
public static String getMax(String[] inputArray) {
int maxValue = Integer.MIN_VALUE;
for(int i = 0; i < inputArray.length; i++) {
if(maxValue < Integer.parseInt(inputArray[i])){
maxValue = Integer.parseInt(inputArray[i]);
}
}
return String.valueOf(maxValue);
}
public static String getMin(String[] inputArray) {
int minValue = Integer.MAX_VALUE;
for(int i = 0; i < inputArray.length; i++) {
if(minValue > Integer.parseInt(inputArray[i])){
minValue = Integer.parseInt(inputArray[i]);
}
}
return String.valueOf(minValue);
}