Java – Text File and StringTokenizer – cannot find symbol?

Java – Text File and StringTokenizer – cannot find symbol?
I am writing a simple code to read a text file and split the lines of string into tokens… it is giving error “cannot find symbol” for String Tokenizer. Also, if someone could let me know if I am reading the file correctly and storing the string tokens correctly. :) This is the error:

Employer.java:18: cannot find symbol
symbol : constructor StringTokenizer(java.util.Scanner,java.lang.String)
location: class java.util.StringTokenizer
StringTokenizer st = new StringTokenizer(inputFile, ” “);

This is my code:

import java.util.Scanner;
import java.util.StringTokenizer;
import java.io.*;

public class Employer
{
public static void main (String[] args)
{

File Information = new File(“Information.txt”);
Scanner inputFile = new Scanner(Information);

StringTokenizer st = new StringTokenizer(inputFile, ” “);

while (inputFile.hasNext())
{

String firstName = st.nextToken();
String lastName = st.nextToken();
String employeeNum = st.nextToken();
String hireDate = st.nextToken();
String shiftNum = st.nextToken();
String payRate = st.nextToken();

}

inputFile.close();

}
}

Best answer:

The StringTokenizer class has 3 constructors. Yours doesn’t appear to be any of them.

see

java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/java/util/StringTokenizer.html

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