Thread: Creating a Linked List from the contents of a file

Hi, I'm working on an assignment for programming class where we're supposed to create a method that takes the contents from a text file (one giant string) and stores them piece by piece in a linked list. I'm a little stuck and not sure where to go from here, or if I'm on the right track...

import java.util.*;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
 
public class LinkedLists
{
    // instance variables - not sure if I should use these?
    // private String file;
    // private LinkedList<String> list;
 
    /**
     * A method to read the items from a file and convert them to a list.
     * @param fileName the file to be read
     * @return readItems a linked list containing read items.
     */
    public static LinkedList<String> readItems(String fileName) throws FileNotFoundException
    {
        File input = new File(fileName);
        Scanner in = new Scanner(input);
        String file = "";
 
        // Copy the contents from the file to a String
        while (in.hasNext())
        {
            file = in.next();
        }
 
        // Create the list
        LinkedList<String> list = new LinkedList<String>();       
        ListIterator<String> iter = list.listIterator();
 
        // Copy the String contents to the Linked List
        while (iter.hasNext())
        {
            for (int i=0; i<file.length(); i++)
            {
                file = in.next();
                list.add(file);
            }
        }
 
        return list;
    }
}

There is also a tester class which is supposed to create a linked list from the text file and print the list.

import java.io.File;
import java.util.Scanner;
 
public class LinkedListTest
{
    public static void main(String[] args)
    {
        File input1 = new File("input1.txt");
        Scanner in = new Scanner(input1);
 
        String s = in.next();
 
        System.out.print(readItems(s));
    }
}

I'm not sure how to implement my readItems method into this main method. Should I convert my text file to a String in the main method too? So confused...

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