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Thread: Help reading a file to decode or encode

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    Default Help reading a file to decode or encode

    Hello I've ran into hopefully a small problem. A few weeks ago we were given an assignment to decode or encode a phrase given by a user. This week we have to change our code so it users a file and not user input. This is the original working code. **this is not entire code just the part I need help with**

    public static void main(String[] args) {
    		alpha = new char[26];
    		loadData();
    		input = new Scanner(System.in);
    		while (true) {
    			displayMenu();
    			int choice = input.nextInt();
    			input.nextLine();
    			if (choice == 1) {
    				String phrase = getPhrase("Please enter a phrase to decode");
    				decodeMessage(phrase);
    			} else if (choice == 2) {
    				String phrase = getPhrase("Please enter a phrase to encode");
    				encodeMessage(phrase);
    			} else if (choice == 3) {
    				displayAlphabet();
    			} else if (choice == 4) {
    				System.out.println("Goodbye!");
    				break;
    			}
    		}
    	}
     
    private static String getPhrase(String message) {
    		System.out.println(message);
    		String phrase = input.nextLine();
    		return phrase;
    	}

    I have spent hours trying different senerios without success. I'm not sure where I am making my mystake. This is my latest version.


    private static String getPhrase() {
     
    		Scanner file = new Scanner(new File("C:\\Users\\me\\file.txt"));
    		String[] phrase=new String[5];
    		int i=0;
    		while (file.hasNext())
    		{
    		    phrase[i]=file.nextLine();
    		    i++;
    		  }
    		return phrase;
    	}
    public static void main(String[] args) {
    		alpha = new char[26];
    		loadData();
    		input = new Scanner(System.in);
    		while (true) {
    			displayMenu();
    			int choice = input.nextInt();
    			input.nextLine();
    			if (choice == 1) {
    				decodeMessage(phrase);
    			} else if (choice == 2) {
    				encodeMessage(phrase);
    			} else if (choice == 3) {
    				displayAlphabet();
    			} else if (choice == 4) {
    				System.out.println("Goodbye!");
    				break;
    			}
    		}
    	}
    My newest error is on my return phrase; in getPhrase. It says incompatible types- found java.lang.String[] but expected java.lang.String. I know this is because I'm mixing an array with a String... I just know how to fix it...


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    Default Re: Help reading a file to decode or encode

    Just as a thought, maybe you can invoke the Array toString() method?

    like:

    String str= Arrays.toString(phrase)

    and then instead of returning phrase, just return str

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    Default Re: Help reading a file to decode or encode

    That worked! thanks!

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    Default Re: Help reading a file to decode or encode

    no problem

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