Java - using Scanner to pull Strings and Ints from a file into an array

Question

I'm trying to make an array for ParkingArea(string, int, int, int, int). The file that is getting scanned is here http://uwf.edu/jcoffey/data.txt

try
{
  Scanner scan = new Scanner(file);
  for (int i = 0;scan.hasNext(); i++)
  {
    for(int x = 0; x < 4; x++)
    {
      if(x == 0)
      {
        name = scan.next();
      }
      else
      {
        array[x-1] = scan.next();
      }
    }
    ParkingArea[i] = new ParkingArea(name, array[0], array[1], array[2], array[3]);
  }
}
catch (FileNotFoundException e)
{
  e.printStackTrace();
}

I get this error when I compile.

Parking.java:40: error: incompatible types
              array[x-1] = scan.next();
                                    ^

Any help would be GREATLY appreciated.

Answer 1

scan.next() returns a String. If you want to convert it to an int, you need to call `

Integer.parseInt(scan.next())

Answer 2

Instead of

array[x-1] = scan.next();

give

array[x-1] = scan.nextInt();

a try. Assuming that array is of type int[] , then your issue comes from assigning the int value at array[x-1] to a String , which is what scan.next() returns. Using scan.nextInt() will return an int , thus solving the error.