Re: Easy question but I can't seem to get it to work
"Kevin Ashton" <aashtonk@gmail.com> wrote in message
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Thanks for the help guys all of your suggestions have worked perfectly.
I got the file to read in correctly. I noticed though that I can only
read in a file if it's one line of text without any Enters. I'm using
the BufferedReader.readLine() command. I've tried to find another
method in the BufferedReader to do that but .read() only returns an
Int.
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public static String readInFile(String fileName) //Should have file
name as parameter
{
String returnText= "none";
try
{
FileReader file = new FileReader(fileName);
BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(file);
returnText= br.readLine();
}catch(Exception x){ System.out.println("Invalid File"); }
return returnText;
}
<snipped>
br.readLine() does exactly that - read one line at a time. You need to
create a loop, which reads one line at a time, until no more lines are
available.
Hint: create a loop which loops over the br.readLine() statement more than
there are lines available in the file. Then do a System.out.println() each
time a line is read. This way you will learn about the end condition for the
loop.
Best of luck,
JayCee
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