I'm writing Conway's game of life for a school assignment. I have a text file with coordinates of the initial locations with bacterium. All I need to know is how to tell java to compare a coordinate in the matrix to a coordinate from the file. The pairs are listed in the file like this:
1 3
1 7
1 8
1 11 etc.
I tried
in = new Scanner(new File("/home/chris/Desktop/life100.txt"));
for(int i = 0; i < grid.length; i++){
for(int j = 0; j < grid[i].length; j++){
if(grid[i][j] == in.nextInt() in.nextInt()){
grid[i][j] = '*';
}
}
But I have no idea how format my if statement