(a) Reading the first line and performing initialization; (b) extracting and converting the first two tokens; (c) simple catch to display an error message.

(a)
String aLine = superStore.readLine();
if ( aLine == null ) throw new Exception("empty file");
StringTokenizer t = new StringTokenizer(aLine, ","); 

(b)
//get the product and attribute counts
productsNum_ = Format.atoi(t.nextToken());
productsAttrNum_ = Format.atoi(t.nextToken());

int i;

// read in the names of the attributes
productsAttr = new StringBuffer[productsAttrNum_];
for ( i = 0; i < productsAttrNum_ ; i++) {
    productsAttr[i] = new StringBuffer("");
    productsAttr[i].append(t.nextToken());
}

// create the products and set up the store.
for ( i = 0; i < productsNum_ ; i++ ) {
     aLine = superStore.readLine();
     if ( aLine == null ) throw new Exception("unexpected empty line");
     t = new StringTokenizer(aLine, ",");
     Product aProduct = new Product ( 
         t.nextToken(), 
         Format.atoi(t.nextToken()), 
         Format.atof(t.nextToken())); 
     products_.addElement(aProduct);
     }
}

(c)
catch (Exception e) {
     errorDialog (" Problem with reading the data file ");
     System.exit(1);
    }
}