Passing lines in a text file to an array

Question

Hi,
I did a search on this, looked through the tutorials. I want to read in a line from a text file and pass it to an array. here's my code:
package pack1;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileReader;
import java.io.FileWriter;
import java.util.Scanner;
public class CDSort {
      * write a program that will read a bunch of cd's from a textfile,
      * count how many there are, and figure out how many cd boxes I will need based
      * on a fixed amount that will fit in each box. The cd's should be sorted alphabetically,
      * and each should be placed in a numbered box, and have a numbered position within that box
     public static void main(String[] args)throws Exception {
          java.io.File cdlist = new java.io.File("files/cd-list.txt");
          FileReader infile = new FileReader(cdlist);
          FileWriter outfile = new FileWriter("files/newlist.txt");
          if (cdlist.exists()){
               System.out.println( cdlist.getName() + " exists at " + cdlist.getAbsolutePath());
               System.out.println("this file was last modified on: " + new java.util.Date(cdlist.lastModified()));
               int c;
               while ((c = infile.read()) != -1) {
                    System.out.println(c);
                    String [] textArray = new String[99];
                         for(int i =0; i<textArray.length; i++){
                              // trying to pass text to array here: I tried this, but got an error:
                              //textArray[i] = infile.read(c);
                              // i added this statement so I could see what the value of the array was on the console
                              System.out.println(textArray[i] + i);
                    outfile.write(c);
               infile.close();
               outfile.close();
          } else
               System.exit(0);
}This is probably a pretty basic question, but my hunting arround hasn't really yielded anything.

Answer 1

okay, here's what I did, this seems to work.
package pack1;
import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.BufferedWriter;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileReader;
import java.io.FileWriter;
import java.io.PrintStream;
public class CDSort {
      * write a program that will read a bunch of cd's from a textfile,
      * count how many there are, and figure out how many cd boxes I will need based
      * on a fixed amount that will fit in each box. The cd's should be sorted alphabetically,
      * and each should be placed in a numbered box, and have a numbered position within that box
     public static void main(String[] args)throws Exception {
          java.io.File cdlist = new java.io.File("cd-list.txt");
          FileReader infile = new FileReader(cdlist);
          //FileWriter outfile = new FileWriter("newlist.txt");
          BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(infile);
          BufferedWriter out = new BufferedWriter(new FileWriter("newlist.txt"));
          if (cdlist.exists()){
               System.out.println( cdlist.getName() + " exists at " + cdlist.getAbsolutePath());
               System.out.println("this file was last modified on: " + new java.util.Date(cdlist.lastModified()));
               // while loop was here, I removed it.
               String [] textArray = new String[99];
               String line;
               int lineNum = 0;
               while ((line = br.readLine()) != null){
                    textArray[lineNum++] = line;
                    System.out.println(line);
               int numOfCds = 1;
               int boxNum = 1;
               int boxPos = 1;
               int cdsPerBox = 20;
               out.write("Contents of Box " + boxNum);
               out.newLine();
               out.newLine();
               for(int i = 0; i<textArray.length; i++){
                    out.write(textArray[i] + " box position: " + boxPos + "\n");
                    out.newLine();
                    boxPos++;
                    numOfCds++;
                    if (boxPos >= cdsPerBox){
                         boxNum++;
                         out.newLine();
                         out.newLine();
                         out.write("Contents of Box " + boxNum);
                         out.newLine();
                         out.newLine();
                         boxPos = 1;
               infile.close();
               out.close();
          } else {
               System.out.println("file not found, program terminating");
               System.exit(0);
}thanks for all your help.
bp