/**

 * This program reads Strings from an ascii file.

 */

import java.io.File;

import java.io.FileNotFoundException;

import java.util.Scanner;

import java.util.ArrayList;



public class FileIO {



  /** Read Strings from the file.  Assumes each line of the file contains a single String.

    * @param filename the name of the ascii file name

    */

  public static ArrayList<Animal> readFile(String filename)  {

    ArrayList<Animal> dataArray = new ArrayList<Animal>();

    

    try {

      File inputFile = new File(filename);

      Scanner in = new Scanner(inputFile);

      

      int cnt = 0;

      while(in.hasNextLine())

      {     

        dataArray.add(new Animal(in.nextLine().trim()));

        cnt++;

      }

      System.out.println("count = " + cnt); 

    } catch (FileNotFoundException e) {

      System.out.println("File not found.");

    }   

    return dataArray;

  }

  

  // Used only for testing. Assumes there is a file called animals.txt that is stored 

  //  in the same folder as this java file.

  public static void main(String[] args) {

     ArrayList<Animal> words = FileIO.readFile("animals.txt");

     System.out.println(words.toString());

  }

}