Solve the Error:null issue

[coopc]

Hi everyone I am trying to write a code which creates a 3 dimensional array using the lines from a textfile.
the text file will have 25 lines. all lines will have different number of stops string. in this code the first line of the text file will have:
stop1 stop2 stop3 stop4

my code below should return stop1 but instead its returning "Error:null"
please help. i want to know what im doing wrong. :

import java.util.*;
import java.io.*;
public class Reading
{
public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException
{
int a,b,c;
String read;
String[] Astop;
String[][][] AllStops;
AllStops=new String[5][5][];
try
{
FileInputStream fstream = new FileInputStream("textfile.txt");
DataInputStream in = new DataInputStream(fstream);
BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(in));
for(a=0;a<5;a++)
{
for(b=0;b<5;b++)
{
read=br.readLine();
Astop=read.split(" ");

if(read==null)
{
AllStops[a][b]= new String[1];
AllStops[a][b][0]=" ";
}
else
{
AllStops[a][b]= new String[Astop.length];
for(c=0;c<Astop.length;c++)
{
AllStops[a][b][c]=Astop[c];
}
}
}

}
System.out.print(AllStops[0][0][0]);
in.close();
}
catch (Exception e)
{//Catch exception if any
System.err.println("Error: " + e.getMessage());
}
}
}

[Tolls]

catch (Exception e)
{//Catch exception if any
System.err.println("Error: " + e.getMessage());
}

Insetad of doing this do e.printStackTrace(), so you get all the data on the exception. That way you'll find out which line is causing the problem, which should tell you which object is null.

Also use code tags when posting code (quote my post to see them in action).

[coopc]

Thank you so much!! Life saver :D
Ill be sure to use code tags next time. Hopefully, I wont need to post another question anytime soon :)