Re: Reading data into an Array

From:
 simon.mates@gmail.com
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.help
Date:
Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:08:49 -0700
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On Jul 2, 10:44 am, Manuel Eberl <manueleb...@gmx.de> wrote:

christopher_bo...@yahoo.co.uk schrieb:

Hi all.

i am trying to read data from a text file and add it into an Array so
that I can read the data from the Array back in again. I haven't got a
clue how to create an Array.

Can someone help me.

Any help in this matter would be appreciated.

Thanks for any help.


What do you mean saying "read data from a text file and add it into an
Array"? Do you want to put the separate lines as Strings into a String[]?

If you want it like that, you can use a LineNumberReader:

try {
  List<String> lines = new LinkedList<String>();
  FileReader fileReader = new FileReader("filename");
  LineNumberReader reader = new LineNumberReader(fileReader);

  while (reader.ready()) {
    lines.add(reader.readLine());
  }} catch (IOException e) {

  System.out.println(e);

}

As said, you can then convert the List to an array using lines.toArray().


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intensive research. thank you!

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