java opening txt file for students

[tygergyrl]

I am having trouble in sorting out what i need to do for my first assignment. open a text file, with colon char, 1 student number: 2 student name: 3 5 fields with marks;
a algorithms: b mathematics: c java: d C++: e scripting
open txt file read
open txt file write
open txt file append
write/append per-formatted line to txt file
I could use all the help i can get in getting this right.
thank you for any help

[solomon_13000]

1 student number: 2 student name: 3 5 fields with marks;

example:

B00101:John Lenon:50:60:70:80:90

The marks are given according to the below subject sequence:

a algorithms: b mathematics: c java: d C++: e scripting

So John Lenon with the student number B00101 scored 50 for algorithm, 60 for mathematics, 70 for java, 80 for C++ and 90 for scripting.

Is this correct?.

[hfx642]

Lookup tokenizer in the Java docs.
This will help you parse your input string.
Hint:
Your first "word" will be your student number.
Your last 5 "words" will be your marks.
Put together the remaining "words" for your student name.

[tygergyrl]

1 student number: 2 student name: 3 5 fields with marks;

example:

B00101:John Lenon:50:60:70:80:90

The marks are given according to the below subject sequence:

a algorithms: b mathematics: c java: d C++: e scripting

So John Lenon with the student number B00101 scored 50 for algorithm, 60 for mathematics, 70 for java, 80 for C++ and 90 for scripting.

Is this correct?.

this is correct but there are ex
student number 0521: student name: -0.0:25.0:-0.0:45.0:70.0
there is no letter in the student number or the grades there are some students that get no grade hence -0.0 otherwise 0 - 100

[solomon_13000]

As long as data in the file is seperated using (e.g colon or comma), then you can retrieve the data from the file using (e.g FileOutputStream) and split the data using a tokenizer.