Scanner FileNotFoundException

[Dex]

Hi I'm new to scanners and i'm getting this error:

Error: unreported exception java.io.FileNotFoundException; must be caught or declared to be thrown

I am trying to read a text file and I think the problem might be the way i'm creating my scanner, but i'm not sure..

String fileName = "Save.txt";
    Scanner scan = null;
      
    File file = new File(fileName);  
    scan = new Scanner(file);

Have i done something wrong? I have also tried using an absolute path, but i got the same error.. :(
Thanks.

[JosAH]

The compiler doesn't know anything about paths, whether absolute or not. All it knows is that possibly a file could not be found and the Scanner might throw an Exception and your code doesn't anticipate on it, nor does it state that it lets pass the Exception; either catch the Exception with a try ... catch block or tell the compiler that your method lets this Exception pass ('throws' in the header in of the method).

kind regards,

Jos

[Dex]

The compiler doesn't know anything about paths, whether absolute or not. All it knows is that possibly a file could not be found and the Scanner might throw an Exception and your code doesn't anticipate on it, nor does it state that it lets pass the Exception; either catch the Exception with a try ... catch block or tell the compiler that your method lets this Exception pass ('throws' in the header in of the method).

kind regards,

Jos

Hi Jos,

thanks for the info, but my problem is that I know that the txt file exists in my directory but my scanner cant find it for some reason.
Regards
Dex

[Zyril]

Hi Jos,

thanks for the info, but my problem is that I know that the txt file exists in my directory but my scanner cant find it for some reason.
Regards
Dex

There is one problem, you know that your .txt-file exist in your directory, but does your Scanner know this?

Is it in your current working directory?

You can also try to put a dot before your file.txt-path, like

String fileName = "./Save.txt";
    Scanner scan = null;
       
    File file = new File(fileName);  
    scan = new Scanner(file);

[Tolls]

Hi Jos,

thanks for the info, but my problem is that I know that the txt file exists in my directory but my scanner cant find it for some reason.
Regards
Dex

You need to handle the exception.
The Scanner(File) constructor throws a FileNotFoundException, so you have to handle it in your code, as Jos says.

Here's the exceptions tutorial.

[Dex]

You need to handle the exception.
The Scanner(File) constructor throws a FileNotFoundException, so you have to handle it in your code, as Jos says.

Here's the exceptions tutorial.

Yes thank you for all of the information, I needed to use try & catch. :)