trouble with JFileChooser

I am working on my assignment, where we have to read data from a file and do some searching and replacing, and write back to the file. We have to get the file object using JFileChooser and I keep getting an error. I wrote a simple little app to test it, and Im getting the same error on the Scanner line:

Code:

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unreported exception java.io.FileNotFoundException: must be caught or declared to be thrown

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Code:

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import java.util.*;
import java.io.*;
import javax.swing.JFileChooser;


public class GeneFinder {
    public static void main(String[] args)
    {
      JFileChooser fileChooser = new JFileChooser();
      if (fileChooser.showOpenDialog(null)== JFileChooser.APPROVE_OPTION)
      {
        File file = fileChooser.getSelectedFile();
        Scanner input = new Scanner(file);
       
        while(input.hasNext())
          {
        System.out.println(input.nextLine());
          }
      input.close();
      }
    }
}

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You need to read up on exceptions and try{}catch blocks.

A method you are using is declared to throw an exception. Your code must react to this some how in case the exception is thrown by the method.
Normally this is done by enclosing the method in a try{} catch block.

Well, I looked up throws Exception, and added it to my main class, and it worked. Thanks a lot Norm.

That's the second why of reacting to an exception, pass it to the caller of the current method. Its better to handle it locally if you can. For your simple starter program that should be ok. Later you WILL have to know how to catch exceptions when you are dealing with user input since you can't keep the user from entering bad data.