Java help with reading from a file

Hi guys,

Please could someone advise me on inpuuting from a file?

I'm a beginner and the thing that I can't get past is

File inputFile = new File("D:\\Academic\\Uni Work\\Salford MSc\\Java Programming\\sudoku\\99easy.txt");

FileReader in = new FileReader(inputFile);

The problem is that it just keeps saying that it can't find the file - I have used the whole path and just the name of the file. I am using BlueJ so am working with a "project" and the text file is within this folder(the same as the .java file containing this).

Thanks for any help
Sarah

 

So you are trying to access a txt file called 99easy.txt?

If you have put this within the same directory as the other class files then all you need to enter is "99easy.txt" and not the entire directory of the file. So the line would be;

File inputFile = new File("99easy.txt");

If you had to put the entire directory in then there wouldn't be much point moving it to the same location as the other class files.

Hope this helps

 

Actually I have found a solution.

I thought exactly the same as you but that did not work and confused me for a good while. The solution is that in the path directory I have directories with spaces in the names and Java was not happy with this - as soon as I chnaged the spaces to underscores it could find the file!

 

Mmm, strange.

When I'm reading from a text file I always use the mehod I suggested, well Im glad you got it working anyway.

I see your at Salford uni, Im at Manchester. Small world Isn't it!

 

Maybe you don't use spaces in your directory names? I have just gotten out of that habit since I stopped using Linux - I have found similar problems with that!

I am at Salford, although I was at Manchester.........that's a long story though!