Importing a text file and displaying it

Ok, my goal is to import a text file which i have done. I want to import it into a 2D array. There are 26 rows and 2 columns. Basically just a translator program. This is what i have to load the text file into java. But i am having trouble displaying the array with the data loaded into it. any ideas?
public static void loadData(String a[][])
     throws java.io.IOException
     String file = "C:\\print.txt";
     String inLine;
     int row;
     FileReader fr = new FileReader(file);
     BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(fr);
     for (row = 0; row<=26;row++)
          a[row][0] = br.readLine();
          a[row][1] = br.readLine();     
     br.close();     
     System.out.println(a[row][0]);
     }     

my goal for this program is to have a user enter a phrase to be translated. I have the text file that i am loading into java that has the english word and then the translated word. I want to load that into the 2D array and display it. Then use a stringtokenizer for the translate part. But the problem i have right now is trying to display the data that was loaded into the array. any ideas?

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    Comments for choices 1 and 2: Where does the text file come from? Is it automatically generated or manually generated? Will it be generated multiple times or just once? If it's manually generated or generated just once, you can use any text editor to change 4 spaces to a tab or to a single space. Note: if you want to change it to a tab delimited file, you can't enter a tab directly into a box in the search & replace dialog of many programs like notepad, but you can do a cut and paste. Before you start your search and replace (just in the text window of the editor), press tab. A tab character will be entered. Press Shift-LeftArrow (not Backspace) to highlight the tab character. Press Ctrl-X to cut the tab character. Start your search and replace (Ctrl-H in notepad in Windows 2000). Click into the Find What box. Enter four spaces. Click into the Replace With box. Press Ctrl-V to paste the tab character. And another thing: older versions of notepad don't have search and replace. Use any editor or word processor that does.

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