new to processing, and new to programming, so i appreciate any assistance.

I am reading values from a text file into objects. the file has 3 columns.  

 for (int i=0; i< playerDots.length; i++) {
   float[] values = float (split(data[i], TAB));
   playerDots[i] = new PlayerDot(values[0], values[1], values[2]);
 }

this works fine. however, i only want to display objects that have a specific value, so i added this 'if' statement. this doesn't work.  also, the println that references this value doesn't spit out the value, but something like "texttoobjecttest$PlayerDot@df48c4
".  

void draw() {
 background(255);
 for (int i=0; i<playerDots.length; i++) {
  if (i+1 == playerDots[0]){ //this doesn't work
   playerDots[i].display();
   println(playerDots[0] + " " + playerDots[1]);
// }
 }
}

I am clearly not understanding how to access a value from an object.  this doesn't seem too complicated, but i am stuck.  any assistance would be appreciated.

Thanks!

The problem is that we don't have an idea of what PlayerDot looks like...
But indeed, you can't compare an object with an integer. You have to get a value out of that object.
Either by accessing it directly, like if (i+1 == playerDots[0].value){ or on a cleaner way by getting it via a method: if (i+1 == playerDots[0].getValue()){ with the additional bonus that getValue() can compute something out of internal values.

The best way to print out an object is to make a String toString() method: this method can return any string, in general we put there a selection of the most significant values, eg. return "A=" + a + ", B=" + b;

PS.: I see I am late, I hope my answer is still useful...