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Thread: Re: Reading a file line by line using the Scanner class

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    Post Re: Reading a file line by line using the Scanner class

    I want to store all the lines in a file to compare them with the input. So please tell me how can i store all the lines of the file. My file contains username and password. I want to authenticate an user by comparing them with the data in the file...........


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    Exclamation How to store all lines of a file

            	String data;
            	FileInputStream in=new FileInputStream("D:\\Shared\\abc.txt");
            	BufferedReader bw=new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(in));
            	while((data=bw.readLine())!=null)
            	{
            	System.out.println(data);
            	String datar[]=data.split(",");
     
                 for(int k=0;k<1;k++)
                 {
             		String ate=(String) datar[k];
             		System.out.println(ate);
             		for(int j=1;j<2;j++)
             		{
             			String a=(String) datar[j];
             			System.out.println(a);
            	    }
                 }
     
            	}

    I want to authenticate the user by reading data from file. my file contains username and password. i am not able to store all the lines of a file. If i am able to store all lines somewhere i can compare them with the input user has entered........
    Thanks in advance.....
    Last edited by Freaky Chris; May 8th, 2013 at 01:59 AM. Reason: Update code tags so they are correct

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    Default Re: How to store all lines of a file

    Why not just create an ArrayList for example and pop each line into that,

    ArrayList<String> myArrayList = new ArrayList<String>();
    ...
    while( (data=bw.readLine()) != null) {
        myArrayList.add( data );
    ...


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    Default Re: How to store all lines of a file

    Thanks...
    thank you so much.........

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