Thread: Help - reading from a text file into an ArrayList

Hi, so I am trying to read in a text file and store it in a ArrayList in another class.

My reader code below.

    public static ArrayList<String> readFile(String fileName) throws Exception
    {
        ArrayList<String> data = new ArrayList<String>();
        BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(fileName));
 
        String line = br.readLine();
        while (line != null)
        {
            String[] values = line.split(",");
            data.add(line);
            line = br.readLine();
        }
        br.close();
        return data;
    }

This is the Club class that has the ArrayList of Member.

    public Club()
    {
        try
        {
            membersList = new ArrayList<Member>();
            getFile();
        }
        catch(Throwable ex)
        {
            System.out.println(ex);
        }
    }
 
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    public void getFile() throws Exception
    {
        ArrayList<String> data = FileOperations.readFile("MemberData.txt");
 
        for(String s : data)
        {
            membersList.add(new Member(s));
        }
    }

Below is the Member class showing the Member constructor.

    public Member(String data)
    {
        String[] list = data.split(",");
        memberNumber = list[0];
        memberName = list[1];
        feesPayed = list[2];
        sportPlayed = list[3];   
    }
 
    public Member(String memberNo, String name, String fees, String sport)
    {
       this.memberNumber = memberNo;
       this.memberName = name;
       this.feesPayed = fees; //(need to parse this as a Boolean but haven't managed to do this yet) 
       this.sportPlayed = sport;   
    }

The textfile contains...

123,Sally,true,Tennis
202,Fred,true
313,Siew,true,Tennis
414,Ryan,true,Squash
515,David,false
616,Matthew,running

When I run the code through the UI it comes up with the error of java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException: 3? What have I done wrong?

sportPlayed = list[3];
what is list[3] for this row: 202,Fred,true

See the mistake?