[Problem reading a file in a static block of code]

Question

Hi all,
I'm trying to use a static block of code in an abstract class (let's say for initialisation). In this block I'm trying to read some lines of text from a file, and some FileNotFoundException are thrown,
java.io.FileNotFoundException: file:/home/tom/workspace/cryptanalysis/data/keys (No such file or directory)
java.io.FileNotFoundException: file:/home/tom/workspace/cryptanalysis/data/french_words (No such file or directory)
but all the paths are valid and the files exist as you can see:
tom@javahouse ~ $ ll /home/tom/workspace/cryptanalysis/data/
total 24K
-rw-r--r-- 1 tom users 151 jan 3 23:26 french_frequences
-rw-r--r-- 1 tom users 2,0K jan 4 17:21 french_texts
-rw-r--r-- 1 tom users 11K jan 4 17:16 french_words
-rw-r--r-- 1 tom users 159 jan 4 17:21 keys
tom@javahouse ~ $ cat /home/tom/workspace/cryptanalysis/data/french_words
LE
DE
UN
ETRE
ET
A
IL
AVOIR
NE
JE
SON
QUE
SE
QUI
CE
DANS
I really don't understand why those exceptions are thrown, if somebody
could help it would be very nice. (It is for a crypto school project)
Thanks in advance. (Sorry for my english 'cause I'm french)
Here is a code snippet :
// Path to this class:
// /home/tom/workspace/cryptanalysis/utils/TextUtils.java
public abstract class TextUtils {
     private static String PATH;
     public static String[] KEYS;
     public static String[] WORDS;
     public static String[] PLAINTEXTS;
     public static float[] FREQUENCES;
      * Init KEYS, WORDS, PLAINTEXTS, FREQUENCES, and PATH,
      * with the files in the data folder.
     static {
          String line;
          PATH = TextUtils.class.getResource("../data/").toString();
          System.out.println(PATH);
          // When PATH is printed, it looks like this /home/tom/workspace/cryptanalysis/data/
          KEYS = FileUtils.readFileContent(PATH + "keys"); // Here is the first exception
          WORDS = FileUtils.readFileContent(PATH + "french_words");// Here is the second
          PLAINTEXTS = FileUtils.readFileContent(PATH + "french_texts");// Here is the third
          FREQUENCES = new float['['];
          try {
               BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(PATH + "french_frequences"));// And the fourth
               while(null != (line = reader.readLine()))
                    FREQUENCES[line.charAt(0)] += Float.parseFloat(line.substring(1));
          } catch (Exception e) {e.printStackTrace();}
// Path to this class:
// /home/tom/workspace/cryptanalysis/utils/FileUtils.java
public abstract class FileUtils {
      * Read the content of the file denoted by the given path and
      * return an array of Strings containing each line.
      * @param path
      * @return an array containing all the lines from the file
     public static String[] readFileContent(String path) {
          try {
               String line;
               Vector container = new Vector(100, 100);
               System.out.println(path);
               BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(path));
               while(null != (line = reader.readLine()))
                    container.add(line);
               return (String[])container.toArray(new String[container.size()]);
          }catch(Exception e) {e.printStackTrace();return null;}
     ....

Answer 1

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