Re: (Simple question) Why I failed to read from an input file?

From:
"Oliver Wong" <owong@castortech.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Tue, 21 Nov 2006 11:13:07 -0500
Message-ID:
<oAF8h.104823$es.1163206@weber.videotron.net>
"Shawn" <shaw@nospam.com> wrote in message
news:ejv718$f3q$2@news.nems.noaa.gov...

Hi,

I believe I fully understand how to do input/output and I have never run
into problems. But I don't know why this time I cannot make it work. It
is very simple: a text file called "d_array.txt", located in the SAME
folder. But the error says "The system cannot find the file specified".

try
{
BufferedReader inputStream = new BufferedReader(new
FileReader("d_array.txt"));
String line = null;
line = inputStream.readLine().trim();
while ( line != null )
{
this.D.add(Double.valueOf(line));
line = inputStream.readLine().trim();
}
inputStream.close();
}
catch block

I have played the path to the file like following, neither worked:

new FileReader("./d_array.txt");
new FileReader("D:/programming/d_array.txt");
new FileReader("D:\\programming\\d_array.txt");


    Are you sure your d_array.txt file is located in your D:\programming
directory?

    - Oliver

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