Problem with reading from DAT file. FileNotFound exception

Question

Can't seem to find the issue here. Two files, one (listOfHockeyPlayers) reads from a DAT file a list of players. The other (HockeyPlayer) has just the constructor to make a new hockey player from the read data.
import javax.swing.*;
import javax.swing.event.*;
import java.util.*;
import java.awt.*;
import java.io.*;
public class ImportHockeyPlayers
private ArrayList<HockeyPlayer> listOfHockeyPlayers = new ArrayList<HockeyPlayer>();
public ImportHockeyPlayers(String fileName)
  throws FileNotFoundException
  try
   Scanner scan = new Scanner(new File(fileName));
   while (scan.hasNext())
    //Uses all the parameters from the HockeyPlayer constructor
    String firstName = scan.next();
    String lastName = scan.next();
    int num = scan.nextInt();
    String country = scan.next();
    int dob = scan.nextInt();
    String hand = scan.next();
    int playerGoals = scan.nextInt();
    int playerAssists = scan.nextInt();
    int playerPoints = playerGoals + playerAssists;
    //listOfHockeyPlayers.add(new HockeyPlayer(scan.next(),scan.next(),scan.nextInt(),scan.next(),scan.nextInt(),scan.next(),
     //scan.nextInt(),scan.nextInt(),scan.nextInt()));
  catch(FileNotFoundException e)
   throw new FileNotFoundException("File Not Found!");
public String toString()
  String s = "";
  for(int i = 0; i < listOfHockeyPlayers.size(); i++)
   s += listOfHockeyPlayers.get(i);
  return s;
public class HockeyPlayer
private String playerFirstName;
private String playerLastName;
private int playerNum;
private String playerCountry;
private int playerDOB;
private String playerHanded;
private int playerGoals;
private int playerAssists;
private int playerPoints;
public HockeyPlayer(String firstName, String lastName, int num, String country, int DOB,
  String hand, int goals, int assists, int points)
  this.playerFirstName = firstName;
  this.playerLastName = lastName;
  this.playerNum = num;
  this.playerCountry = country;
  this.playerDOB = DOB;
  this.playerHanded = hand;
  this.playerGoals = goals;
  this.playerAssists = assists;
  this.playerPoints = goals + assists;
DAT File
Wayne Gretzky 99 CAN 8/13/87 R 120 222
Joe Sakic 19 CAN 9/30/77 L 123 210These are all in early development, we seem to have the idea down but keep getting the odd FileNotFound exception when making an object of the ImportHockeyPlayers class with the parameter of the DAT file.
We might even be on the wrong track with an easier way to do this. To give you an idea of what we want to do...read from the file and be able to pretty much plug in al lthe players into a GUI with a list of the all the players.
Thanks for your time.

Answer 1

Thanks for the tip on the date format...good to
know.
public static void main(String[] args)
GUI gui = new GUI();
ImportHockeyPlayers ihp = new
ImportHockeyPlayers("HockeyPlayers.dat");
}It's just being called in the main.
Throws this error:
GUI.java:39: unreported exception
java.io.FileNotFoundException; must be caught or
declared to be thrown
ImportHockeyPlayers ihp = new
ImportHockeyPlayers("HockeyPlayers.dat");
^This error is simply telling you that an exception may occur so you must enclose it in a try catch block or change the main method to throw the exception as follows
public static void main(String[] args) throws  
                      java.io.FileNotFoundException {
     GUI gui = new GUI();
     ImportHockeyPlayers ihp = new
     ImportHockeyPlayers("HockeyPlayers.dat");
}or
public static void main(String[] args) {
     GUI gui = new GUI();
     try {
          ImportHockeyPlayers ihp = new
          ImportHockeyPlayers("HockeyPlayers.dat");
     catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
          System.out.println("error, file not found");
}I would reccomend the second approch, it will be more helpful in debugging, also make sure that the capitalization of "HockeyPlayers.dat" is correct
hope that helps