arrays help

[Warren]

I am reading a text file with BufferedReader (FileReader).
I want to put each line of the text (which has always one word per line)
in an array(which size is predefined from the beginning and it is much bigger
than the amount of the words of the .txt file). Whatever i try to solve the problem it always ends with this: 'cannot convert from String to String[]'

so, how can I put these words one by one in the array? help plz

[hardwired]

Code:

import java.io.*;

public class ReadWords {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        String[] receiver = new String[100];
        int count = 0;
        String path = "wordsToRead.txt";
        try {
            BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(
                                new FileReader(path));
            String line;
            while((line = br.readLine()) != null) {
                receiver[count++] = line;
            }
            br.close();
        } catch(IOException e) {
            System.out.println("Read error: " + e.getMessage());
        }
        System.out.println("We read " + count + " lines from " + path);
        // Print the non-null elements of receiver.
        for(int j = 0; j < count; j++) {
            System.out.print(receiver[j]);
            if(j < count-1)
                System.out.print(", ");
        }
        System.out.println();
    }
}

wordsToRead.txt

Code:

Read
text
from
a
character-input
stream,
buffering
characters
so
as
to
provide
for
the
efficient
reading
of
characters,
arrays,
and
lines.

[staykovmarin]

Code:

	BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new FileReader("test.txt"));
	String s;
	String tmp = "";
	while ((s = reader.readLine()) !=null) {
		tmp += s + "\n";
	}
			
	String[] arr = tmp.split("\\n");

[Warren]

Why we cant say this? (sorry for my ignorance)

Code:

  try {
            BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(
                                new FileReader(path));
            
            while(br.readLine() != null) {
                receiver[count++] = br.readLine()
            }

[hardwired]

Code:

// The condition in the while loop argument reads
// one line but does not save it
while(br.readLine() != null) {
    // The next line is read here and is saved.
    receiver[count++] = br.readLine()
}

So this will read every other line: odd number lines are read but not saved, even number lines are read and saved. Another problem with this is that an exception will be thrown for files which have an even number of lines.
Some like to write the read operation this way:

Code:

String line = br.readLine();
while(line != null) {
    receiver[count++] = line;
    line = br.readline();
}

[staykovmarin]

What if the file is over a 100 lines?

[hardwired]

The easy way is to use a List or StringBuilder, add the lines as you go and convert to an array after the reading operation.

Code:

import java.util.List;
import java.util.*;
...
List<String list = new ArrayList<String>();
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();

String line;
while((line = br.readLine()) != null) {
    list.add(line);
    sb.append(line + "\n");  // staykovmarin's suggestion
}
// convert to an array
String[] words = list.toArray(new String[list.size()]);
         words = sb.toString().split("\n");