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If anyone is still following this thread at all, the problem is occurring in the "printToTextArea" method. I guess it has something to do with my reference to the JTextArea?

Ok, that actually did not fix it, and I forgot that I haven't made it to that point in the program which is why I left it like that. And thanks copeg, but unfortunately it doesn't tell me where this...

wow, i guess I have overlooked that. I can't thank you enough. I'll let you know how it works out.

By the way, I forgot to mention that the Nullpointerexception occurs after I select a file via browse button, type in what i'm searching for, and hit start search button.

I can't figure out how to fix this null pointer exception and i've been going at it for a while now. Any help would be appreciated. I'm still a noob at this so go easy on some of the ways I did...