Array Question

[mamba24]

How to store a list of names in an array?

[KevinWorkman]

What have you tried? Where are you stuck?

I recommend googling something like "java arrays" to get started.

[mamba24]

What have you tried? Where are you stuck?

I recommend googling something like "java arrays" to get started.

I have some basic knowledge on arrays. I'm trying to create something like a contact list. The program should be interactive. So basically I am getting caught up with taking a file already in existence and putting the names from that file into an array.

[KevinWorkman]

I have some basic knowledge on arrays. I'm trying to create something like a contact list. The program should be interactive. So basically I am getting caught up with taking a file already in existence and putting the names from that file into an array.

And which part of that is giving you trouble? Reading in a file? Converting a line of data into an Object? Adding Objects to an array?

I'd recommend googling something like "java file io" to get started.

[sehudson]

The lines that you read in from the file are Strings, so just populate the array with those strings.

[mamba24]

public static void nameMenu1(Scanner sc) throws FileNotFoundException{

File file = new File("names.txt");
Scanner inputFile = new Scanner(file);

Scanner[] madeArray = new Scanner[] {inputFile};

System.out.print(madeArray);

}

This all compiles, but gives me an error when I try to run it.

[KevinWorkman]

What is the error? And what do you expect it to do? Why are you making an array of Scanners?