Reading text files in Java 1.4.2

Question

The program I've been working on for the past few weeks was written using the newest version of java, but I just found out yesterday that it has to be run with Java 1.4.2_10. Almost everything converted fine, my only problem being reading in a text file.
Before I used a Scanner to read each line in a text file and store it in a String array, but with Scanners unavailable, I'm completely lost. Any suggestions?
Here's my code for reading the file in, if this is at all helpful:
Scanner input=new Scanner(new File(fileName));
int counter=0;
while ((input.hasNext())&&(counter<55000)) {  
     String line=input.nextLine();
     list[counter]=line;
     counter++;
}

Answer 1

DrLaszloJamf wrote:
t.s wrote:
Try this
try {
File toRead = new File("C://somefile.txt");
BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(toRead));
String line = null;
while ((line = reader.readLine()) != null) {
System.out.println(line);
reader.close();
} catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
} catch (IOException e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
Why do people catch the FileNotFoundException exception separately?For me it's a personal preference, I don't think there is anything wrong with using just IOException. I think if that's the case, then there is nothing wrong with catching just "Exception".
Edit: ...and I'm lazy. Eclipse does that for me ;)
Edited by: t.s on Jun 18, 2008 8:19 AM