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src/main/java/io/zipcoder/Item.java

@@ -1,11 +1,14 @@
 package io.zipcoder;
 
+import java.util.ArrayList;
+
 public class Item {
     private String name;
     private Double price;
     private String type;
     private String expiration;
 
+
     /**
      * Item should not be created unless you have all of the elements, which is why you are forcing
      * it to be set in the constructor. In ItemParser, if you do not find all the elements of a Item,
@@ -45,4 +48,5 @@ public class Item {
     public String toString(){
         return "name:" + name + " price:" + price + " type:" + type + " expiration:" + expiration;
     }
+
 }

src/main/java/io/zipcoder/ItemList.java

@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+package io.zipcoder;
+
+import java.util.ArrayList;
+
+public class ItemList {
+
+    ArrayList<String> itemList = new ArrayList<String>();
+
+    public ArrayList<String> getItemList() {
+        return itemList;
+    }
+    public void addItem(String s){
+        itemList.add(s);
+    }
+}

src/main/java/io/zipcoder/ItemParser.java

@@ -7,7 +7,6 @@ import java.util.regex.Pattern;
 
 public class ItemParser {
 
-
     public ArrayList<String> parseRawDataIntoStringArray(String rawData){
         String stringPattern = "##";
         ArrayList<String> response = splitStringWithRegexPattern(stringPattern , rawData);
@@ -28,7 +27,7 @@ public class ItemParser {
         String expiration;
         Item item = null;
 
-        Matcher m = Pattern.compile(":([^,].*?)(;|##|\\^|!|%|\\*|@)").matcher(rawItem);
+        Matcher m = Pattern.compile(":([^,].+?)(\\W|;|\\^|!|%|\\*|@)").matcher(rawItem);
 
         int numberOfMatches = countMatches(m);
         final int REQUIRED_NUMBER_OF_FIELDS_FOR_ITEM = 4;

src/main/java/io/zipcoder/Main.java

@@ -7,6 +7,8 @@ import java.util.ArrayList;
 
 public class Main {
 
+    static ItemList itemList = new ItemList();
+
     public ArrayList<String> readRawDataToString() throws Exception {
         ClassLoader classLoader = getClass().getClassLoader();
         String result = IOUtils.toString(classLoader.getResourceAsStream("RawData.txt"));
@@ -19,10 +21,10 @@ public class Main {
     public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
         ArrayList<String> output = (new Main()).readRawDataToString();
         ItemParser itemParser = new ItemParser();
-        ArrayList<String> lastArray = itemParser.findKeyValuePairsInRawItemData(output.toString());
-        for (String s : lastArray) {
+        for (String s : output) {
             try{
-            Item item = itemParser.parseStringIntoItem(s);
+            itemParser.parseStringIntoItem(s);
+
 
             } catch (ItemParseException e) {
                     continue;