Loading into String array?

Question

I made a method that loads 2 strings from a text file, and adds them into an array, but it won't work, heres the code.
public static void loadFile() {
     for(int i = 0; i < 2; i++) {
          try {
     final Properties testCheck = new Properties();
final FileInputStream fis = new FileInputStream("myfile.txt");
testCheck.load(fis);
fis.close();
toTest[i] = testCheck.getProperty("test","Nothing Found");
} catch (IOException ioexception) {
           System.err.println ("Error reading");
} Thats the method, I make it print out the array, and it shows up Nothing Found, which means it didn't find what the value in the text file? Any help is greatly appreaciated.

Answer 1

Whatever your problem is, you haven't described it completely.
Please excuse any typos in the following; my development environment and my internet are on different machines tonight,and I cannot copy-and-paste this over.
package rc.test;
import java.io.*;
import java.util.*;
public class TestLP
  static String[] toTest = new String[2];
  public static void main (String[] arguments)
  { loadFile();
    for (int i=0; i<toTest.length; i++)
    { System.out.println(toTest);
public static void loadFile()
for (int i=0; i<2; i++)
try
final Properties testCheck = new Properties();
final FileInputStream fis = new FileInputStream("myfile.txt");
testCheck.load(fis);
fis.close();
toTest[i] = testCheck.getProperty("test", "Nothing Found");
catch (IOException ioexception)
{ System.err.println("Error reading");
With the file "myfile.txt" in the directory in which the program is run, and containing the single line "test TESTING", this program prints:
TESTING
TESTING
All of your code is here, reformatted but otherwise intact; I've added what I surmised to be reasonable drivers to show us whether this code works as expected, and it does.
Possibilities:
The array you think you're loading the data into is in a different scope than the one loaded.  You do not give us the declaration of that array, so we cannot tell.
The printout of the information is somehow flawed.  You don't show us how you output it, so we cannot tell.
myfile.txt doesn't contain what you expect, or there is more than one copy.  Perhaps "test" is capitalized, which would give the result you indicate.  So would a file that doesn't actually contain "test" as a key.
Part of the point here is that complete information would cost very little compared to what you've already done, and would allow us to help you better.