import shipment of April 12, 2007
# tab separated data
Bird    Golden Eagle    Eddie
Mammal  Tiger   Tommy
Mammal  Lion    Leo
Mammal  Elephant    Eddie
Bird    Parrot  Polly
# last one next
Reptile Cobra   Colin

public void readDataFromFile() throws FileNotFoundException
   {
      fileName = fileDialogBox.getFile();
      String directoryPath = fileDialogBox.getDirectory();

      File dataFile = new File (fileName);
      Scanner scanner = new Scanner(dataFile);
      scanner.useDelimiter("\t");

      scanner.next();
      while(scanner.hasNextLine())
       {
       String type = scanner.next();
       String species = scanner.next();
       String name = scanner.next();
       System.out.println(type + "  " + species + " " + name);
       scanner.nextLine();
       addAnimal( new Animal(species, name, this) );
       }

      scanner.close();
    }

   }

boolean firstTime = true;
while(scanner.hasNextLine())
       {
       if(firstTime)
       {
        scanner.nextLine();
        firstTime=false;
       }
       String type = scanner.next();
       String species = scanner.next();
       String name = scanner.next();
       System.out.println(type + "  " + species + " " + name);
       scanner.nextLine();
       addAnimal( new Animal(species, name, this) );
       }