reading file from a path

[new_coder]

Hi,
i am trying to read file from a path like this "/var/tmp/twl06.txt"
i am getting error.
anyone please suggest how to do it.

thanks in advance

[Fubarable]

How are you trying to read it, and we can tell you perhaps where you're going wrong. Also, if you get an error (ever) and need to ask a question about it here, please post the error message completely and indicate in your code where the error is occurring, usually by placing a comment like so:

for (int i = 0; i <= myArray.length; i++) {
   System.out.println(myArray[i]); // **** array index out of bounds occurs here ****
}

[/code]

[new_coder]

 BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new FileReader("tw106.txt"));
            while((br.readLine()) != null)
            {
                for(int i=0; i<178690; i++)
                {
                    wordList[i] = br.readLine();
                }
            }

instead of the file there...i want to read it from the path given above

[quad64bit]

You need to create a file object:

BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(new File("tw106.txt")));

[Fubarable]

I don't think that the problem is the one outlined by quad above as FileReader has a constructor that takes String and likely creates a File within the constructor. The problem is likely that the file is not located where he's looking. To the original poster, run this in your program:

System.out.println(System.getProperties("user.dir"));

This will tell you where the JVM is looking for your file.

[quad64bit]

Whoops, you are correct. Thanks! I've been doing things so long a certain way, I sometimes miss things :D