the code that is attached it what i have done so far but dont seem to be able to get the test file to get it to display the informationthe code i have is shown below

import java.io.*;
import java.util.*;

public class league{
    private static final int MAX_TEAMS = 50;
    private int noteam;
    private team[] myleague = new team[MAX_TEAMS];

    public void readleague(){
        String file = "matches.txt";
        String line;
        int noteam=0;

        try
        {
            FileReader fr = new FileReader (file);
            BufferedReader inFile = new BufferedReader(fr);
            line = inFile.readLine();

            while ((line != null)&&(noteam<MAX_TEAMS)){
                StringTokenizer st = new StringTokenizer(line,",");
                myteam[noMatches] = new team(st.nextToken(),
                                            st.nextToken(),
                                            String.parseInt(st.nextToken()));
                line=inFile.readLine();
                noteam++;
            }
            inFile.close();
        }
        catch(IOException e){
            System.out.println("Cannot open matches file");
        }
    }
    public void displayleague(){
        for (int i = 0;i<noteam;i++){
            System.out.print("hometeam:"+myleague[i].gethometeam());
            System.out.print("\t homescore:"+myleague[i].gethomescore());
            System.out.print("\t awayteam:"+myleague[i].get awayteam());
            System.out.println("\t awayscore:"+myleague[i].getawayscore());
        }
    }}

public class football{
    private String hometeam;
    privte int homescore;
    private String awayteam;
    private awayscore;
    //private int result ;

    public football(String hometeam, int homescore,String awayteam, int awayscore ){
        this.hometeam=hometeam;
        this.homescore=homescore;
        this.awayteam=awayteam;
        this.awayscore=awayscore;
        //this.result=result;
    }

    public football(){
    }

    public String gethometeam(){
        return hometeam;
    }

    public int gethomescore(){
        return homescore;
    }

    public String getawayteam(){
        return awayteam;
    }

    public int getawayscore(){
        return awayscore;


import java.io.*;

public class leaguetest{

    public static void main(String args[]) throws IOException{
        InputStreamReader isr = new InputStreamReader(System.in);
        BufferedReader stdin = new BufferedReader (isr);

        League locatedfootball = new League();
        String hometeam;
        //int homescore
        //String awayteam
        //int awayscore

        League team=new League();
        team.displayLeague();
        //bbit4.sortleague();
        team.displayLeague();

        system.out.print(" hometeam:");
        hometeam=stdin.readLine();

        locatedfootball=team.findfootball(hometeam);
        if(locatedfootball==null){
        system.out.println("team not found");
        }
        else{

            System.out.print("hometeam:"+locatedfootball[i].gethometeam());
            //System.out.print("\t homescore:"+locatedfootball[i].gethomescore());
            //System.out.print("\t awayteam:"+locatedfootball[i].getawayteam());
            //System.out.println("\t awayscore:"+locatedfootball[i].getawayscore());
        }

    }

}

First of all remeber to wrap your code with

tags.
Second make sure youve got the right location for the file - You have to put the whole location in i.e '"C:/blah/matches.txt" unless its actually located where you store your classes.
Third try printing out "line" after youve done this line = inFile.readLine();

Hope that might stear you nearer to a working program :)

thank you that is of great help. really appreciated

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