Array position problem

Question

HI everyone I am looking for some help on an array problem.
I am reading in a text file that is in a line by line format eg.
apple
orange
pear
etc
The problem is that I want my array to increment each line. However each time a new line is read from the text file the array postion goes back to zero. Im assuming theres something wrong with my loop. Somebody please help!!!
String line;
String[] words;
int i;
try { 
BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new FileReader("wordlist.txt"));
while((line = reader.readLine()) != null){
words = line.split(" ");
for(i = 0; i < words.length; i++){
Arrays.sort(words);
//System.out.println(words);
if(findWord.equals(words[i])) {
Cap = "the word was found at position " + Arrays.binarySearch(words, words[i]);
test=true;
checkString();
reader.close();
I I read in
apple orange pear
carrot cucumber tomato
then apple[0] orange[1] pear[2]
but then this resets to 0 on new line i.e
carrot[0] cucumber[1] tomato[2]

Answer 1

Correct me if Im wrong but I think I have created the
array out side the loop.Your original code declares the array outsid of the loop, but it doesn't create it. It just allocates a reference variable that will point to the aray.
Inside the loop, where you do words = split you're creating a new array each time. (And like I said, if there's only one word on a line, you don't need to spilt.)
As for putting the next
lines word into the array on each loop pass I do not
understand how to do this. Any help would be
appreciated?
for (int ix = 0; ix < numLines; ix++) {
    arrar[ix] = the line that you just read
} Of course, if you're using the standard while (line != null) for loop control, then you can just skip the for part and create an index variable that you increment inside the body of the loop.