Bolimous Prime

Thanks.
I wont have the filename hardcoded, I will be doing it the way you suggested after I get the core mechanics worked out.

I have a problem where when a create an new filelist object I want it to populate using a the constructor. The problem is that I get an IOException error if I use the contructor this way. I can call it externally without problems (i.e. fl.populatelist() .
Code below
public class Filelist { private List listOfFiles = new ArrayList(); Filelist() { //populateList(); //doesnt work IOException } public void populateList() throws IOException { String filename; filename = "C:\\Program Files\\eclipse\\workspace\\dcstatsgen3\\downloads.log"; BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(filename)); try { String inputLine; while ((inputLine = in.readLine()) != null) { listOfFiles.add(parseLine(inputLine)); } } catch (EOFException e) { } in.close(); } }