Reading first word from text file

Question

Hello all,
I created a program which I can type in a line and store it into a file. What I need my next program to do is read and display just the first word from each line on the text file.
Here is what I have:
import java.io.*;
public class ReadFromFile
public static void main (String args[])
     FileInputStream firstWord;          
          try
              // Open an input stream
              firstWord = new FileInputStream ("FileofWords.txt");
              // Read a line of text
              System.out.println( new DataInputStream(firstWord).readLine() );
              // Close our input stream
              firstWord.close();          
               System.err.println ("Unable to read from file");
               System.exit(-1);
}

Answer 1

what i would like is my program to get the first word of every line and put it in my array.
This is what i have attempted.
import java.io.*;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.io.BufferedReader;
public class testing {
     String[] tmp = new String [2];
     String str;
     public void programTest()
          try
                         BufferedReader in2 = new BufferedReader(new FileReader("eventLog.log"));
                         while ((str = in2.readLine()) != null)
                              tmp = str.split(" ");
                              System.out.println(tmp[0]);
                    catch(IOException e)
                         System.out.println("cannot read file");
public static void main(String[] args)
             testing B = new testing();
             B.programTest();
}//end classAny help is most appreciated