Need help with an infinite loop please

Question

Can somebody please help me out with displaying text that's been imported from another file onto a JTextArea? this is the code i've been trying to get to work, and it does, but it is stuck in an infinite loop and i can't see why. I've tried adding a counter before the while loop, and displaying and incrementing it inside the loop. The counter gets to 32 (the last line of the file) then goes back to 1 and starts again. Any help, or explanations would be awesome, thanks.
String line;
     while ((line=reader.readLine())!=null){
          System.out.println(num);
          append(line+" \n");
     }                              

Answer 1

think you will have to post some more of the code, is that within any sort of loop itself , has it its own method ? is it an event handler ? ..btw the append sould be fine .. is this a subclass of a TextArea ? where is this bit of code ?
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