reading a file into my program!

[AZRebelCowgirl73]

am trying to tell the program to always read in the file named, Competitors.txt but all I get is an error. i don't know what I am doing wrong here is my code.

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

public class ContestManagement {
      
      public static void main (String [] args)  throws IOException{

      //define local variables
      final int MAX_LENGTH = 30;
      Competitor competitorArray[] = new Competitor[MAX_LENGTH];
      int arraySize = 0;

      Scanner stdin = new Scanner(System.in);
 
//set up file stream
      Scanner fileIn = null;
      
      try {
            fileIn = new Scanner("Competitors.txt");
            for (int i = 0; (fileIn.hasNextLine()) && (i < MAX_LENGTH); ++i) {
                  int ID = fileIn.nextInt();
                  String n = fileIn.next();
                  double m = 0.0;
                  Competitor c = new Competitor(ID, n, m);
                  competitorArray[i] = c;
                  ++arraySize;
            }
      }
      catch (InputMismatchException e) {
            System.out.println("uh oh, got an exception error!");
      }
      
    }
}

[JosAH]

but all I get is an error.

Care to tell what the 'error' is?

kind regards,

Jos

[AZRebelCowgirl73]

sorry it is not a debug error, I get the catch error to print! which tells me I am not scanning the file in to the program right.

[AZRebelCowgirl73]

and the competitors.txt file exists within the same directory and has the following information with no blank lines:

6241 Cathy
3792 Patrick
2910 John
8371 Mary
9372 Tony
3532 Jane

[AZRebelCowgirl73]

Ok I think I got it, however, Here is what I have!

      //set up file stream
        Scanner fileIn = null;
         try {
	fileIn = new Scanner(new File("Competitors.txt"));
	while(fileIn.hasNext()) {
		int ID = fileIn.nextInt();
		String n = fileIn.next();
		double m = 0.0;
		Competitor c = new Competitor(ID, n, m);
		competitorArray[arraySize] = c;
		++arraySize;
	}           
          }
      catch (InputMismatchException e) {
            System.out.println("uh oh, got an exception error!");
      }

[JoeMac3313]

Are you running 1.4 or 1.5 in Java because I think Scanner isn't implemented in 1.4.

Joe