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arraylist problem

Oct 28th, 2008

What is wrong with my code. it poulates the arraylist with only the filename "c:\testfile.txt" i need it to populate it with the contents of the file.

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private ArrayList<String> Files2Delete = new ArrayList<String>();
private String fName = "c:\\TestFile.txt";
 
private void fileCollection ()
    {
        Scanner in = new Scanner(fName);
        int i = 1;
 
        while (in.hasNextLine())
        {
            String line = in.nextLine();
            Files2Delete.add(line);
            i++;
        }
        in.close();
    }
private ArrayList<String> Files2Delete = new ArrayList<String>();
private String fName = "c:\\TestFile.txt";

private void fileCollection ()
    {
        Scanner in = new Scanner(fName);
        int i = 1;
        
        while (in.hasNextLine())
        {
            String line = in.nextLine();
            Files2Delete.add(line);
            i++;
        }
        in.close();
    }

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Re: arraylist problem

Oct 28th, 2008

The scanner constructor takes a string as a source to read from, the string is not a filepath

use this

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File file = new File(fName);
 
Scanner in = new Scanner(file);
File file = new File(fName);

Scanner in = new Scanner(file);