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reading and printing more than 1 files.

Posted by Pearl Lee on January 18, 2001 at 9:51 PM

Hi,
I made 3 text files, and now I want to read them and print the contents of the texts files. I don't know how to do that. First, I tried to put 3 filenames in a String array, and use the loop to print them out, but only one file (the last file was read and printed out). Here are my codes:

private static Comparable[] readFromFile()throws IOException
{
String[] fileName = {"firstInt.txt", "ascenInt.txt", "descenInt.txt", "firstDouble.txt", "ascenDouble.txt", "descenDouble.txt"};
Comparable [] numbers = new Comparable[size];
int[] readNumbers = new int [size];
for(int i = 0; i < fileName.length; i++)
{
FileReader fr = new FileReader(fileName[i]);
BufferedReader inFile = new BufferedReader(fr);
for(int j=0; j < size; j++)
{
numbers[j] = (Comparable)(inFile.readLine());

}
inFile.close();
}
return numbers;
}
I have another print method which invoke this from file method, and it is called in main (print(readFromFile());)

Is there anything wrong with my codes? Any helps are very, very appreciated. Thanks. Pearl