Please HELP me read this file....!

Question

I am having trouble reading the file input.dat using this code that I wrote. It compiles without errors but I get an ArrayIndexOutOfBounds Exception when i run my program.
public void Read(String fileName) {
                try {
                        String num;
                        String cells;
                        FileReader file = new FileReader(fileName);
                        BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader (file);
                        num = in.readLine();
                        number = Integer.valueOf(num).intValue();
                        co = new ClassObject[number];
                        pair = new PairObject[number * number];
                        System.out.println("There are " + number + " total classes");
                        int cno = 1;
                        int x =0;
                        int y =0;
                        while (in.readLine() != "*") {
                            for (int b=0; b<number; b++){
                               co[b] = new ClassObject();
                               co.className = in.readLine();
co[b].classNumber = cno;
while (in.readLine() != "$"){ //problem occurs here
co[b].classAttribute[x] = in.readLine();
x++;
while (in.readLine() != "#"){
co[b].classMethod[y] = in.readLine();
y++;
cno++;
} catch (IOException e) {
System.out.println("Warning: Cannot Read File");
System.exit(0);
}and here is my input file (input.dat): 5
class1
int someInt
$
getInt()
class2
String anyString
$
getString()
class3
int value
$
setValue()
class4
char someChar
$
getChar()
class5
float someFloat
$
getFloat()
* thanks so much for any help!

Answer 1

Hi, I changed some part of my code but I am still having the same problem. Here is my new code, hopefully somebody can help me figure this out String line = in.readLine();
while (!"*".equals(line)) {
      for (int b=0; b<number; b++){
       co[b] = new ClassObject();
       co.className = line;
co[b].classNumber = cno;
while (!"$".equals(line)){
co[b].classAttribute[x] = line;
x++;
while (!"#".equals(line)){
co[b].classMethod[y] = line;
y++;
cno++;