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Setting Delimiters for Scanner

Scanner defines where a token starts and ends based on a set of delimiters. The default delimiters are the whitespace characters. To Change the delimiters Scanner: useDelimiter(String pattern) Scanner: useDelimiter(Pattern pattern) Pattern is a regular expression that specifies the delimiter set. Use Scanner to compute the average of a list of comma-separated values. import java.io.FileReader; import java.io.FileWriter; import java.io.IOException; import java.util.Scanner; public class MainClass {   public static void main(String args[]) throws IOException {     FileWriter fout = new FileWriter("test.txt");     fout.write("2, 3.4,    5,6, 7.4, 9.1, 10.5, done");     fout.close();     FileReader fin = new FileReader("Test.txt");     Scanner src = new Scanner(fin);     // Set delimiters to space and comma.     // ", *" tells Scanner to match a comma and zero or more spaces as     // delimiters.     src.useDelimiter(", *");     // Read and sum numbers.     while (src.hasNext()) {       if (src.hasNextDouble()) {         System.out.println(src.nextDouble());       } else {         break;       }     }     fin.close();   } } 2.0 3.4 5.0 6.0 7.4 9.1 10.5