Getting Buffered Reader to read next line and update.

Question

Hello.
I have been trying to get this program to read the next line in a txt file correctly. This is a GUI program
where clicking the button is supposed to bring up the next bit of information for the user to see.
I can get the first line of information to come out correctly, but I am unable to get it to read the next line when I click the next button.
Here is a snippet of my coding...
private JFileChooser fileChoose;
private File openedFile;
private int recordNumber = 0;
FileReader inFile;
String sMaker = new String (  );
else if ( ae.getActionCommand (  ) == "Next Record" )
     if ( openedFile.exists (  ) )
          nextRecord (  );
     else
     JOptionPane.showMessageDialog ( null, "No Files Opened", "No Files Found", JOptionPane.ERROR_MESSAGE );
public void nextRecord (  )
     recordNumber ++;  // Increment record number
     fileNumber.setText ( sMaker.valueOf ( recordNumber ) );  // Prints to JTextField for user to see
     BufferedReader inText;
     String lineRead;  // Holds line read in
     String [] organizedInfo;  // Array to hold info after being split
     try
          inFile = new FileReader ( openedFile );
          inText = new BufferedReader ( inFile );
          lineRead = inText.readLine (  );
          organizedInfo = ( lineRead.split ( "," ) );//.trim (  );
          for ( int i = 0; i < organizedInfo.length; i ++ )
               organizedInfo[i] = organizedInfo.trim ( );
name.setText ( organizedInfo[0] );
city.setText ( organizedInfo[1] );
state.setText ( organizedInfo[2] );
catch ( FileNotFoundException fnfe )
JOptionPane.showMessageDialog ( null, "Selected File was Not Found", "File Not Found", JOptionPane.ERROR_MESSAGE );
catch ( IOException ioe )
JOptionPane.showMessageDialog ( null, "IO Error. Please Try Again.", "IO Error", JOptionPane.ERROR_MESSAGE );
employee.txt
William Wallace,Richmond,VA
Samuel Gompers , San Francisco , California
Andy Smith,Rochester,NY
Sandy Beach,Pittsford,NY
Slim T. None,San Francisco,CA
George Jones, Washington , D.C.
Marvin Martin, Boston , Massachusetts
I. M. Last , Deadmans Gulch, Arizona
Everytime I click the next button, it should go through the list in employee.txt until i reach the end. But it just stops at William Wallace.
I know that this can be recoded to make it more efficient, but before that, I still need to figure out how to get the line read to update to next line.
Thank you in advance.

Answer 1

Your program works perfectly correctly!
Each time you click the button it reads the first line and displays it. Why? Because you create a new reader everytime you enter the nextRecord method and the reader reads the first line. Each new reader has no idea where the last reader was upto in your file. It has to start at the beginning.
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