Swing labels and file input

Question

Okay, let's see if i can explain this in one go...
I have a file reader class as below:
package chineseanimals;
import java.io.*;
public class AnimalFileReader {
    public AnimalFileReader (String filename) {
         try{
FileReader fr = new FileReader(filename);
BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(fr);
String s;
while((s = br.readLine()) != null) {
System.out.println(s);
fr.close();
      catch (Exception e)
        {   System.err.println("File input error");
}This is called up through:
AnimalFileReader animalFile = new AnimalFileReader(animal.toString().toLowerCase() + ".txt");
finalAnimal = animalFile.toString();
  public String getFinalAnimal() {
        return finalAnimal;
    }(Part of the Chineseanimals class .getAnimalFile method)
Which altogether is ran by this:
private void getAnimalsActionPerformed(java.awt.event.ActionEvent evt) {
// TODO add your handling code here:
    String year = tempYear.getSelectedItem().toString(); //tempYear is obtained through a JComboBox
    Chineseanimals getAnimals = new Chineseanimals(year);/* year is convertee into an animal for use in the animal.toString().toLowerCase() above*/
    getAnimals.getAnimalFile();
    resultsLabel.setText(getAnimals.getFinalAnimal());
}It prints the file no problem, in the NetBeans output box. However, at the Swing label i get:
chineseanimals.AnimalFileReader@c1cd1fHopefully that all makes some sort of sense. Ultimately i want to get it so that the resultLabel (which is a swing jLabel) displays the contents of the file read at (animal.toString().toLowerCase() + ".txt").
Where am i going wrong?

Answer 1

I'm going to assume your questions were rhetorical (mainly because i can't be bothered to answer them) and designed to point me in the right direction as well as make me think i was able to find my own answer.
Which i did, (completely by myself, that is).