Help with FileNotFoundException

I'm learning Java from a book, and I'm sure I copied everything exactly, but if I use the example code from the book, it has errors. Maybe outdated? Please check the code.

Code:

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throws FileNotFoundException {
            Scanner diskScanner = new Scanner(new File("rawData.txt"));
            PrintStream diskWriter = new PrintStream("cookedData.txt");
           
            double unitPrice, quantity, total;

            unitPrice = diskScanner.nextDouble();
            quantity = diskScanner.nextInt();

            total = unitPrice * quantity;
            diskWriter.println(total);
        }

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I imported java.io.File, java.io.FileNotFoundException, java.io.PrintStream

This is everything in your code file? You're missing quite a bit. What's the book?

-Gary-

I excluded the package, imports, and main, but thats all there is inside main. The book I learn from is "Beginning Programming With Java For Dummies, 2nd Edition"

Show us your entire code file please.

-Gary-

Code:

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package myworkspace;

import java.util.Scanner;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
import java.io.PrintStream;
public class Main {

   
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        throws FileNotFoundException {
            Scanner diskScanner = new Scanner(new File("rawData.txt"));
            PrintStream diskWriter = new PrintStream("cookedData.txt");
           
            double unitPrice, quantity, total;

            unitPrice = diskScanner.nextDouble();
            quantity = diskScanner.nextInt();

            total = unitPrice * quantity;
            diskWriter.println(total);
        }
    }
}

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This is everything

Here is your problem:

Quote:

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Originally Posted by Beginner

Code:

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    public static void main(String[] args) {
        throws FileNotFoundException {

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You have an extra { there. This is all one method declaration. The book may split it into two lines because of space, but it's logically this:

Code:

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        public static void main(String[] args) throws FileNotFoundException {

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-Gary-

Oh that was the problem. Thanks. But now it has a compile error:

Exception in thread "main" java.io.FileNotFoundException: rawData.txt (The system cannot find the file specified)
at java.io.FileInputStream.open(Native Method)
at java.io.FileInputStream.<init>(FileInputStream.jav a:106)
at java.util.Scanner.<init>(Scanner.java:636)
at myworkspace.Main.main(Main.java:25)

I tried to create the file myself besides the .class, .java files, still didn't help

That's not a compile error, it's a runtime error. Where are you putting the rawData.txt file? Are you using an IDE?

-Gary-

Isn't it suppose to make the txt file itself? Im using NetBeans.

I tried placing the rawData.txt and cookedData.txt besides all the files, with the .class file, then with the .jar, then with the .java, but all of them still gives the error.

It will create cookedData.txt, but it needs to read from rawData.txt -- that's what a Scanner does. I don't use NetBeans, so maybe somebody else can comment on the layout it uses, but I can tell you the file should not be in a src or bin directory, but probably in the project's root directory.

-Gary-

I finally got it to work! Thanks Gary!

edit: I gave you +rep!

Hi, can you tell me how did you get it to work. I have the same problem