Hello all,

I'm currently in the process of creating an OBJ importer for an opengles android game. I'm relatively new to the language java, so I'm not exactly clear on a few things.

I have an array which will hold the number of vertices in the model(along with a few other arrays as well):

float vertices[];

The problem is that I don't know how many vertices there are in the model before I read the file using the inputstream given to me.

Would I be able to fill it in as I need to like this?:

vertices[95] = 5.004f; //vertices was defined like the example above

or do I have to initialize it beforehand?

if the latter is the case then what would be a good way to find out the number of vertices in the file? Once I read it using inputstreamreader.read() it goes to the next line until it reads the whole file. The only thing I can think of would be to read the whole file, count the number of vertices, then read it AGAIN the fill in the newly initialized array.

Is there a way to dynamically allocate the data as is needed?