Reading files and writing files

I as of right now have no code. I'm just stuck on the problem and don't know how to start. I'm a beginner programmer so don't expect too much from me.

The assignment can be found here: http://www.cas.mcmaster.ca/~khedri/w...ssignment4.pdf

If someone can just guide me that would be greatly appreciated. It's not a difficult task for some of you, but it is for me.

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At the bottom of the assignment, it tells me to use these method signatures. Not sure what they do, but I just copied and pasted it into my new class file. I started by writing the code for opening the file and the try/catch exception handling. But other then that I'm completely confused on how to read the file for the 3rd field.

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Code :

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public class RecordReader {
	public static String[] readThirdFieldsFromFile(String inputFileName) throws FileNotFoundException, IOException{
 
		Scanner newScanner = newScanner(System.in);
 
		try{
			System.out.print("Enter the name of a file you wish to open: ");
			String fileName = newScanner.nextLine();
			newScanner = newScanner(new File(fileName));
		}
		catch (exception FileNotFoundException){
			System.out.println ("FileNotFoundException");
		}
 
	}
}

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So far the only thing I have :|

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Okay the file didn't show up as good as i thought it would. Give me another minute