Alright, I'm using the Scanner class to run through some information inside a text file. The text file is as follows (the "arrows" show the end of each entry):

quote

Dominic M. Ippolito UNKNOWN 2175551212
UNKNOWN <---- END
Shirley A. White 05/30/1959 3094388016
ADDRESS
101 N Main St
Normal
IL
61761 <---- END
Mickey T. Mouse UNKNOWN UNKNOWN
UNKNOWN <---- END
Felicity M. Congdon 09/25/1982 UNKNOWN
UNKNOWN <---- END

As you see, they entries can be of various length. How could I create a loop to go through each one of those entries?

If they can be of various length and spanned over various lines then it's near on impossible to automate identifying individual entries. The input will require something to specify where a new entry begins, whether its a unique character or pattern.

I was able to figure this out. inputFile is the Scanner of the file being read, and person is the Person class to where the information is being read from.

Since the first two lines of each entry in the text file will always be there, we look at those. If the second one reads UNKNOWN, we stop, because we don't know the persons address. If we do know it, we continue to read until the end of the address.

code

while (inputFile.hasNext()) { person.readRecord(inputFile); System.out.println(person.toString()); }