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[ December 04, 2004: Message edited by: C Ho ]
 
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First thing you'll need to do is to read in your text file and capture the data in a String .. I assume that each Shape will at least be on a different line in the text file.
Then you'll need to parse the String using the split command this will give you a sinle dimension array for each String. If you can get that far you'll be 90% of the way there.
Have a go at reading in the file first and if you are having problems post back.
Good luck,
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What have you tried so far? You probably need to use FileInputStream, FileReader, or some other classes from the java.io package. That's where I suggest you start.

Keep Coding!

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"First thing you'll need to do is to read in your text file and capture the data in a String .. I assume that each Shape will at least be on a different line in the text file.
Then you'll need to parse the String using the split command this will give you a sinle dimension array for each String."

Are there any examples? I find that I learn best with example, else I just sit on a chair coding for hours, days, weeks without progress because I simply do not know what Im doing!
 
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Do you have a textbook? It should have plenty of examples. You may also want to see if the Java Tutorial has something appropriate to help you. Also, the links to the Java API documentation I gave above have a lot of helpful information, even if there are not full code examples.

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No textbook, school is really crappy..
 
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this is what i have so far:



I keep getting this error though, can someone please help me?

Error: cannot resolve symbol
symbol : class IOException
location: class ReadFileToArray
 
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hello?
 
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It may be as simple as adding an import at the top of the class ... right after package if you have one, right before class.

import java.io.IOException;
 
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thanks
, now i can finally see how this makes sense
[ December 04, 2004: Message edited by: C Ho ]
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