AverageGPA.java (source)

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// AverageGPA.java - A program to read in a bunch of student records
// from a file, and print all student names who have a greater than
// average GPA (i.e., the Dean's list).  The file format is:
//    count_of_records (int) <newline>
//    name (String) <tab> GPA (float) <newline>
//
// An ArrayList would probably be a better choice for this particular
// application, but I wanted to show array processing so I added a count
// of the records as the first line of the file.  The file name is
// passed as a command line argument to the program.
//
// Written 2004 Wayne Pollock, Tampa FL USA.

import java.io.*;
import java.util.*;

public class AverageGPA
{
   private static final String DELIMITER = "\t";

   public static void main ( String [] args )
   {
      BufferedReader in = null;
      int numRecords = 0;
      Student [] student;
      float runningTotal = 0.0f;
      String record = null;

      if ( args.length != 1 )
      {  System.out.println( "\nUsage: java AverageGPA <name_of_datafile>" );
         System.exit( -1 );
      }

      try
      {  in = new BufferedReader( new FileReader( args[0] ) );
         numRecords = Integer.parseInt( in.readLine() );
      }
      catch ( FileNotFoundException fnfe )
      {  System.out.println( fnfe );
         System.exit( -1 );
      }
      catch ( Exception e )
      {  System.out.println( "\n*** Could not read number of records "
           + "(first line)!" );
         System.exit( -1 );
      }

      student = new Student[numRecords];

      for ( int i = 0; i < numRecords; ++i )
      {
         try
         {  record = in.readLine();
         }
         catch ( IOException ioe )
         {  System.out.println( "\n*** Unexpected End Of File (after line "
                  + i + "!" );
            System.exit( -1 );
         }

         String name = null;
         float gpa = 0.0f;
         try
         {  StringTokenizer st = new StringTokenizer( record, DELIMITER );
            name = st.nextToken();
            gpa = Float.parseFloat( st.nextToken() );
         }
         catch ( Exception e )
         {  System.out.println( "\n*** Bad Record (line " + (i+1)
               + ": " + record );
            System.exit( -1 );
         }
         student[i] = new Student( name, gpa );
         runningTotal += student[i].getGPA();
      }
      
      // Compute the average:
      if ( numRecords == 0 )
         System.exit( 0 );
      double average = (double) runningTotal / numRecords;
      
      System.out.println( "\n    Dean's List (GPA  greater than "
            + average + "):\n" );
      
      for ( int i = 0; i < student.length; ++i )
      {
         if ( student[i].getGPA() > average )
            System.out.println( "\t" + student[i] );
      }
   }

}  // End of class AverageGPA


/** This is a trivial class Student, containing only a name and GPA:
 */
class Student
{
   private String name;
   private float gpa;

   public Student ( String name, float gpa )
   {  this.name = name;
      this.gpa = gpa;
   }

   public String getName ()
   {  return name;
   }

   public float getGPA ()
   {  return gpa;
   }

   public String toString ()
   {  return "Name: " + name + "\tGPA: " + Float.toString( gpa );
   }
}