Thread: Text File into String Array

I'm a complete beginner to Java Programming. I'm having difficulties trying to crack the following piece of code.

What I want the code to do is get the values from a text file which just has 1 number on each line like so :

20
10
30

The problem with the code I made is it is not storing each number in a separate index (eg. results[0] = 20, results [1]= 10 and so on..) . So when I execute the following code "System.out.println( result[0]);", it shows me all the numbers in the file instead of just the first number (eg. 20).

     /******* Put Text File into Array************/
 
      try 
      {
         FileReader in = new FileReader ("highscores.txt");
         BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new BufferedReader(in));
 
         String line;
 
	 while ((line = br.readLine()) !=null)
	 {
 
	    String[] result = line.split("\r\n"); 
 
	    for (int x=0; x<result.length; x++)
	    {
	       System.out.println( result[x]); 
	    }
         }	
 
      }//try
 
      catch (Exception e)
      {
         System.err.println("Error: " + e.getMessage()); //Catch exception if any and show error message
      }

Can anyone help me with a solution?

	 while ((line = br.readLine()) !=null)
	 {
 
	    String[] result = line.split("\r\n"); 
 
	    for (int x=0; x<result.length; x++)
	    {
	       System.out.println( result[x]); 
	    }
         }

2 things:
1. there's no reason to call line.split(), this is done automatically by calling readLine().
2. You're printing out the entire contents of the array in the for loop. Instead, print out only the item you put into the array. You'll need an external counter (one outside the while loop) to keep track of where you're adding the next line of text into.

An array is different than an ArrayList. The main difference is that an ArrayList is an object, while an array is not.

Since array is not an object, you cannot use methods to interact with its values. Instead, you use brackets to reference its values. For example, you would use this call:

array[0];

to access the 0 index in the array.

On the flip side, since ArrayList is an object, you use methods to interact with its values. These methods can be found in the ArrayList API(ArrayList (Java Platform SE 6)). Specifically, the method to get a value at a given index in the ArrayList class is the get(int index) method. So, to access the value at index 0 in an ArrayList, you would call:

arraylist.get(0);

So, your call to:

System.out.println(results[0]);

Is wrong because results is an ArrayList. To get the value of index 0 in results, you have to use a method. That method is the get method, so you would say:

System.out.println(results.get(0));

I hope that information helps, it is very important to learn the difference between arrays and object data structures.