Arrays and File Reading

[DaFlake]

It is me again and I can once again use a little help. My little learning project is going along very well but I am once again stuck....

What I want to do now is create an array and use items from a txt file to fill the array.

If I remember correctly, I need to create a FileInputStream linking to the file and then use BufferedReader to read it in... This is kind of what I did.

try {
     FileInputStream interestIn = new FileInputStream("interest.rtf);
     BufferedReader interestOut = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(interestIn));

for (int j; j < interestRateArray.length; j++) {

     interestRateArray[j] = interestOut.readLine();
     }

interestOut.close();

I can't cut and paste right now as I am coding on one computer (not connected to the network) and posting from one that is. (Long Story)....

Basically what I am trying to do is take an array that I had created manually in the code and make it go out and pull the values from a file into the array.

Should I create new method for this?

Like before, I also don't want to post the code up as this is an active universites project (UoP) that I am playing with for the fun of it. Any help is appreciated and if you could point me in the right direction please let me know.

[DaFlake]

OK, to add to the above, I managed to get my code cleaned up with no errors.

:)

What I am getting now is that the file can't be found when I run that application. I have tried the total path and the local path with no luck. I am on a Mac, so I wonder if there is something that I am missing.

[RamyaSivakanth]

catch the "FileNotFoundException

1.Either give the above exception in try-catch or use throws

2.Check whether file exist on the same directory where ur java class is located because u have not specified the path and directly giving the file.

3.If u give path put "/" for location not "\"

[DaFlake]

Thanks!

I think that I got that figured out but I am now getting another error instead of the file not found one.

Basically I think that it is trying to read the file but something is happeneing. I created an RTF file in my directory and I think that it is now finding it as I am getting a different error.

Can't open input server /Library/InputManagers/MultiClutchInputManager.bundle

It looks like something about Floating Decimal....


I did get rid of the try and catch and declared the exception and the beginning of the method.

Here is what I did...

String [] interestRateArray = new String [3];

FileInputStream interestIn = new FileInputStream("/Users/Will/.../interest.rtf");
BufferedReader interestOut = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(interestIn));

for (int j; j < interestRateArray.length; j++) {

     interestRateArray[j] = interestOut.readLine();
     }

interestOut.close();

My "interest" file contains three decimal numbers seperated by a return.

My question is, will this work or am I off base here? I don't get any compiling errors but it does crash.

Just so you know, after I load up the array, I am pulling the number from the array position and then using parse to get it to a double so that I can use it.