How to get a variable into another block?

Question

Hello,
(I am from Germany, so be patient due my english please)
We do a project at our University where we have to do with wordfrequencies. The app works fine, but it cannot works with the variable wich contains the information to analyse.
Look, I am more or less new in Java and I found a code and modyfied that. So I had to initalize the variable with the data from another class. I did the following thing.
Thats is the class, where the variable is come from:
class Lesen extends HTMLEditorKit.ParserCallback                                        
     String zeile;                                                                           
     String fileName;                                                                
     Wortfrequenz aha;                                 // name of the class where I need the variable                                                                                                                                                                      public Lesen (String fileName)                                                          
          this.fileName = fileName;                                                      
public void handleText(char[] data, int pos)                                            
                String strom = new String (data);                                       
                aha = new Wortfrequenz ();                                              
                aha.verb(strom);                // "strom" is the variable here in this class which caontains the data
....and within the class "Wortfrequenz" I tryed to do the following thing:
import java.util.*;                                                                     
import java.io.*;                                                                       
public class Wortfrequenz
     static String flus;                                                                     
     public void verb (String o)                                                             
          flus = o;                                                                       
HashMap words = new HashMap();                                                         
HashMap stopWords = new HashMap();                                                      
String delim = " \t\n.,:;?!-/()[]\"\'";                                                 
String file;                                                                            
String word;               
Count count;                                                            
                try
                        FileReader kl = new FileReader("stopwords.txt");                
                        BufferedReader mk = new BufferedReader(kl);                     
                        String einlesen;
                        Lesen eins = new Lesen(flus);                                   
                        while ((einlesen = mk.readLine()) != null)                      
                                stopWords.put(einlesen, einlesen);                      
                        mk.close();  if I test the app and do a "System.out" direktly after
flus = o;then I can see that the information is within the variable, but when I test the variable within the next block where I need it, for example after
Count count;or anywhere in this block, then I get
null
null
null
null
null
...if anyone tell me how I can get the information of this variable into the nex block, that would be great.
Thanks a lot for helping...
Stephan

Answer 1

This: public void verb (String o)                                                             
  flus = o;                                                                       
}Is the whole verb method. That's all it does is assign the flus variable. This:{               
HashMap words = new HashMap();   
// etcIs an initializer, which runs as soon as the object is created, ie before the verb method.