Problem reading a text file into a two-dimensional character array

[wvu5004]

Hi everyone,

I'm having an issue with a project. We have to create a Maze class, where the maze is a two dimensional character array filled with characters read in from a text file using Scanner. For example, one of the files looks like this:

V V N N N
N V V N N
N N V V V
N N V N V

I have tried several different things, but none have given me the proper output. Here is what I tried to use most recently:

public void fillMaze() throws IOException
{
Scanner sc = new Scanner(System.in);
String fileName;
String line;
String[] temp;
count = 1;

System.out.println("Enter the name of the file you'd like to fill the Maze with.");
fileName = sc.nextLine();
Scanner scFile = new Scanner(new FileReader(fileName));

while(scFile.hasNext())
{
line = scFile.nextLine();
temp = new String[count];
temp[count-1] = line;
count++;
}
}

Any help or feedback anyone can give me would be much appreciated.

Thanks!

[pbrockway2]

I have tried several different things, but none have given me the proper output.

There's nothing in the code you posted that gives any output. Things are a lot easier if you post a compilable, runnable example and actually describe the mismatch between observed and expected output.

(In questions like this you can reduce the amount of code you post, and make it easier for others to see the problem, by replacing all the file i/o stuff with a single string containing the data that would be in a typical file.)

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Your code has "temp = new String[count];" inside the while loop. That doesn't make sense: why create (and throw away) a whole bunch of increasingly larger arrays? Try creating the array once - before you start filling it with strings. Give it a nice name which describes it, like linesArr rather than temp.

[Stamoulohta]

hi,

I am very very new to java but I don't see any two dimensional array in your code..!

Should't you create an array of arrays to do what you want???

[pbrockway2]

I might add that if you get compiler messages don't fight them! Or out maneuver them by moving things around until the compiler shuts up. They are generally alerting you to a problem which has to be understood first, then solved. If you are unsure about a compiler message, post it.

[Eranga]

Try to solve one step at a time. I can see lot of issues in your code actually. All of them cause that you don't have a proper design for this. First try to make a proper design, if you have that in our hand converting it into a code is not a major thing. It'll avoid lots of errors as well (unless you don't know about the basis).

[Eranga]

Think about,

String[] temp;
count = 1;

and,

temp = new String[count];
temp[count-1] = line;
count++;