Error in parsing text and splitting it

Question

Hi all
Recently, i recieved some help with regards to splitting up a string into sentences. The following code returns the error message: "LJava.lang.String;@18fe73". Can any one tell me why and how i can resolve this? Many many thanks in advance. i was advised before to use MULTILINE for spliting up my sentences but i cant seen to get the hang of that either. Again any help would be mcuh appreciated.
import java.io.*;
import java.util.*;
import java.util.regex.*;
public class breakSentence2{
Vector sentence = new Vector();
public breakSentence2(String fileName)
try {
BufferedReader input = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(fileName));
String line = input.readLine();
String string="";
while(line!=null)
string=string+" "+line;
//System.out.println(string);
line=input.readLine();
System.out.println(string);
makeSentence(string);
input.close();
} catch(FileNotFoundException e){
System.out.println(e);
catch(IOException e2) {
System.out.println(e2);
private void makeSentence(String a)
Pattern p = Pattern.compile("[.]");
String[] sentences = p.split(a);
for( int i=0; i < sentences.length; i++ ) {
if(sentences[i] == null || sentences.length() == 1) {
else
//String noPunc = removePunctuation(sentences);
//remove puncuations
//System.out.println( "With punctuation: " + sentences );
//System.out.println( "Without punctuation: " + noPunc );
//sentence.add( sentences.trim() );
//sentence.add(noPunc.trim());
sentence.add(sentences);
public void printInformation() {
for(int i =0; i<sentence.size(); i++)
System.out.println("Position"+ i+ " " +sentence.get(i) );
public static void main(String[]args)
breakSentence2 x = new breakSentence2( "output3.txt" );
x.printInformation();

Answer 1

For example:
catch(FileNotFoundException e){
System.out.println(e);
}Should be:
catch(FileNotFoundException e){
e.printStackTrace();
}The kind of gibberish you're seeing is what gets printed when you print an object without a respectable "toString()" method.
My suspision is that it's coming from one of your catch clauses.
printStackTrace will give you far more information when there's an error.