Reading a file into an array
hi, i'm pretty new to java and need a little help. i'm trying to produce a program to analyse text from a file. I' m thinking i need to read the file in question character at a time and store them in an array, which can then be passed as a parameter to other methods to calculate the number of printable characters etc. Is this the right way to do it or am i completely off course.
This is what i have, it complies ok but doesn't give the outcome is not what i was hoping for, any help would be apprieciated or if you can suggest another way of doing it.
import java.io.*;
import java.util.*;
import java.lang.*;
public class DraftTextAnalyzerTestV1
{
public static void main (String [] args)
{
try
{
FileReader importedFile = new FileReader ("fileread.txt"); //create FileReader object
BufferedReader textStream = new BufferedReader (importedFile);
int [] filedata = new int [300]; //array to hold unicode value of char
int ch; //holds int (uniCode) value of character
char c; //holds character after typecast from int
int counter = 0; //counts chars read so far
ch = textStream.read();
c = (char) ch; //typecast from int to char
System.out.println("/n");
// continue until end of file reached
for (int i = 0; i < filedata.length; i++)
{
System.out.println(""+ c); // disply next char
ch = textStream.read(); //read next char
filedata = textStream.read();
c = (char) ch;
System.out.println("filedata = "+filedata);// line to see filedata being populated
}
textStream.close();
}
catch (FileNotFoundException e)
{
System.out.println("no file read");
}
catch (IOException e)
{
System.out.println("problem reading file");
}
}
}
