How do I multiply two numbers on the same line of a text file?

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I think I may have to split strings to be able to do this process but i'm not too sure for example in the text file the numbers are positioned like

George 3 12
and i want to multiply the 3 by 12 so does anyone have any ideas on how I could do this
thanks

Posted 29-May-15 0:59am

Adamdew93

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OriginalGriff · Answer 1 · 2015-05-29T01:11:00

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You will need to split out the three (or more) items, convert them to numeric values, and then multiply them.
This smells like homework, so I'll give you no code!
But this should help: http://www.tutorialspoint.com/java/java_string_split.htm[^], and so should this: http://www.tutorialspoint.com/java/number_parseint.htm[^]

Posted 29-May-15 1:11am

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Adamdew93 29-May-15 7:18am

will using a scanner to read the file make it more complicated or does that not matter

Maciej Los 29-May-15 9:09am

It's unrelated. String is string.