Pulling output data from .txt file

Question

Hello, I am trying to have a program that allows a user to input shopping items into the program andhave that input go to a .txt file called shoppinglist, then after the user is finished, he/she can type no to stop entering items to the list and the program will then pull all the info entered to the .txt file and output it to the screen, creating a shooping list for the user. My problem is that I am not quite sure how to output the data from the .txt file to the screen. Here is my code.
import java.io.*; // uses the java io library for the
import java.util.*; // BufferedReader class
public class week5
public static void main(String [] args)
PrintWriter inputItems = null;
try
inputItems = new PrintWriter(new FileOutputStream("shoppinglist.txt"));
BufferedReader outputItems = null;
String line = null;
outputItems = new BufferedReader(new FileReader("shoppinglist.txt"));
line = outputItems.readLine();
outputItems.close();
catch(FileNotFoundException e)
System.out.println("File file.txt not found");
System.out.println("or could not be opened.");
catch(IOException e)
     System.out.println("Error reading from file file.txt.");
System.out.println("This program will create a shopping list:");
String keepGoing = "yes";
String item = null;
Scanner keyboard = new Scanner(System.in);
for (int count = 1; count < 999 && keepGoing.equalsIgnoreCase("yes");count++)
//ask for input, write it to a file
System.out.print("Please enter item # " + count + ": ");
System.out.print("");
item = keyboard.nextLine();
inputItems.println(count + " " + item);
//ask if you want to keep going
System.out.print("Do you wish to enter more items (yes/no): ");
System.out.print("");
keepGoing = keyboard.nextLine();
System.out.println("Your shopping list contains: " + item);
System.out.print("");
inputItems.close();
} All the above does is output the last item entered by the user, not the whole shopping list. Any help is greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

nim_ramesh wrote:
outputItems = new BufferedReader(new FileReader("shoppinglist.txt"));
/* I think u want to print the text here so */
line = outputItems.readLine(); // Replace this line with that while loop
outputItems.close();
He hasn't even read the user input at that point.
OP, you need to sit down and think about the exact order you want to do things in, and rewrite your code in a logical straightforward manner. It looks like you just threw some code in hoping it would work, instead of coding deliberately. I'm not insulting you or anything, I know you're new to Java. I'm just trying to give you some advice. Look at your code, and ask yourself why the following line of code appears before you've even written anything to your file:
line = outputItems.readLine();