close and reopen BufferedReader

[Tealoon]

I want to close and read file again with BufferedReader, here's the code:

in.close();
BufferedReader in = openfile(args[0]);

The compiler give me following message:

TakeHome1.java:34: in is already defined in main(java.lang.String[])
BufferedReader in = openfile(args[0]);		
               ^

Can't figure out what's wrong... How can I fix this?

[Tealoon]

I just figured it out, but there's a different problem. Now it looks like this:

		in.close();
		in = openfile(args[0]);

TakeHome1.java:33: unreported exception java.io.IOException; must be caught or declared to be thrown
in.close();


... How do I throw exception for in.close(); ? I'm not even sure why I need exception for that.

[Fubarable]

You throw the exception in the method that holds this code. Or wrap the statements in a try/catch block.