Whoops, too slow. Check out the javadocs though, it might be helpful in explaining what you need to do.

http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/io/File.html#renameTo(java.io.File)

Check that out. It's expecting a file, not a string. It seems like you need to create a new file with a filename of...

I don't know if your goal is to utilize object-oriented programming or not, but typically I would have 2 separate classes (probably in 2 separate file). One would be the "driver" file that contained...

BLAH! Ok, i should've done a search first. I found my answer.

For anyone else who need's help on this same thing, here's the thread I found:
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Dear god. this is driving me crazy. I'm working on an assignment involving inheritence, multiple classes, etc. I'm stuck at one stupid part. I have to write a toString method that formats the text....

actually, the comparing part wasn't the problem. It was not being able to compare the char type variable with the "#" that was assigned to the mark variable because of incompatible types...

Now...

I'm working on a program where I'm reading a file and I have to count the number of entries in the file. Each entry takes up a different number of lines, but each entry is also separated by a '#'....