question: public static Matrix readLAVModelFile ( String fileName , boolean ignoreFirstLine ) { LinkedList < String > fileRows = GeneralLib . readFileRows ( fileName ) ; Matrix stringMatrix = new Matrix ( ) ; int maxNumberOfTabs = 0 ; for ( String row : fileRows ) { int numberOfTabs = row . split ( "\t" ) . length ; if ( numberOfTabs > maxNumberOfTabs ) { maxNumberOfTabs = numberOfTabs ; } } for ( String row : fileRows ) { String [ ] columns = row . split ( "\t" ) ; int numberOfTabs = columns . length ; if ( numberOfTabs == maxNumberOfTabs ) { if ( ignoreFirstLine ) { ignoreFirstLine = false ; } else { ArrayList < String > rowList = GeneralLib . convertStringArrayToArrayList ( columns ) ; stringMatrix . addRow ( rowList ) ; } } else { DebugLib . emptyFunctionForSettingBreakPoint ( ) ; } } if ( stringMatrix . getNumberOfRows ( ) == 0 ) { DebugLib . stopSystemAndReportInconsistency ( "maxNumberOfTabs:" + maxNumberOfTabs ) ; } return stringMatrix ; }
target:  TODO: write test for this. 