Code stops for no reason

this code just doesnt want to wrok. it stops on the last loop. It doesnt even run the loop. here is the code

Code:

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public static int testMethod(int lineCount3, int lineCounter, String userSelection, String[][] initialCourses, String[][] userData)
        {
                Scanner input = new Scanner(System.in);
                boolean check = false;
                int finalCheck = 0;
               
                for(int z = 1; z < lineCounter; z++)
                {
                        if(userSelection.equals(initialCourses[z][1]))
                        {
                                System.out.println("SUCCESS");
                                System.out.println("WHY AM I STOPPING");
                                check = true;
                        }
                        else if(z == (lineCounter - 1))
                        {
                                System.out.println("You have entered invalid course code");
                                System.out.println("Please enter course code again\n");
                                userSelection = input.nextLine();
                                z=0;
                        }
                }
               
                if(check == true)
                {
                        System.out.println("OMG OMG OMG");
                        for(int g = 1; g < lineCount3; g++)
                        {
                                System.out.println("final Test2");
                                if(userSelection.equals(userData[g][1]))
                                {
                                        System.out.println("You are already enrolled in this course");
                                        finalCheck = 1;
                                        break;
                                }
                                else if(g == (lineCount3 - 1))
                                {
                                        System.out.println("Course Added");
                                        finalCheck = 1;
                                        break;
                                }
                        }
                }
                return finalCheck;
        }

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does anyone has any ideas why? I only got few hours till i have to have this finished...

What have you tried to test this? Where is the main method to call this?

i don't have time to explain all sorry, i went with anther approach and its working somehow.

Can somebody please teach me how to edit existent files with java? I just need basics like how do you add lines to a file, search lines in a file and delete lines in a file.

Look up the sun io tutorials, this can be done fairly easily with what the tutorial explains

The Oracle Java tutorials are the first place to start.

I wouldn't be posting here if i haven't tried already. I really don't get half of what those tutorials say.

This is all i have left to do to finish my project so please one kind soul help me?

If you dont think i tried i went with "http://download.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/essential/io/file.html" first and it doesn't explain it any way i learned so far and i tried other websites as well. The ways i have learned is with PrintWriter except i wasnt there and the book doesnt mention how to access files that are already created.

example: type of code i use to create files:

Code:

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File userFileLog = new File(userFileId);
                if(!userFileLog.exists())
                {
                        PrintWriter output2 = new PrintWriter(userFileLog);
                        output2.print("Text");
                        output2.close();
                }

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Quote:

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Originally Posted by Bagzli

I wouldn't be posting here if i haven't tried already. I really don't get half of what those tutorials say.

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But anything we post here will be just repeating what is in the tutorial(s). If you don't understand them, what makes you think you will understand us. The only difference is that you want us to waste our time repeating stuff.

How I would do it is create a File object for the file you want to read from or write to. From there you chain a file stream to a buffered stream.

Code:

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try{
  File f = new File("SomeFile");
  FileInputStream fis = new FileInputStream(f);
  BufferedReader bis = new BufferedReader(fis);
  String line;
  while(line = bis.readLine() != null){
    //do something
  }
} catch(IOException ioe){
  ioe.printStackTrace();
}

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It will look something like this, I am a little rusty with I/O and have mostly used Object streams to up to this point. The tutorials do a good job of covering this, just keep trying to understand it.

Lesson: Basic I/O (The Java™ Tutorials > Essential Classes)

A lot of IO learning is discovery. Google around the java API's for the methods and types of streams, and just practice it. They describe what they do in the api, and give you all the methods you can use.

Quote:

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Originally Posted by Junky

But anything we post here will be just repeating what is in the tutorial(s). If you don't understand them, what makes you think you will understand us. The only difference is that you want us to waste our time repeating stuff.

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Why should we re-write tutorials that have been written better than anything we can do?

Plus this has been crossposted.