Thread: extracting file content into array

Hello, I am fairly new to Java and I'm working on some code that is supposed to open a file and copy each line into an array. But the problem is that it returns an IOException and doesn't complete the task. The code is below:

import java.util.*;
import java.io.*;
 
public class test 
{
    static String[] subjects = {};
 
    public static void main(String[] args)
    {
        loadArrays();
    }
 
    public static void loadArrays()
    {
        String subFile = "data/subjects.txt";
        try
        {
            subjects = readLines(subFile);
        }
        catch(IOException e)
        {
            System.out.println("cant");
        }
    }
 
    public static String[] readLines(String filename) throws IOException
    {
        FileReader fileReader = new FileReader(filename);
 
        BufferedReader bufferedReader = new BufferedReader(fileReader);
        List<String> lines = new ArrayList<String>();
        String line = null;
 
        while((line = bufferedReader.readLine()) != null)
        {
            lines.add(line);
        }
        bufferedReader.close();
        return lines.toArray(new String[lines.size()]);
    }
 
}

Any help will be appreciated.

But the problem is that it returns an IOException and

Please post error messages with your code and question.

java.io.FileNotFoundException: data/subjects.txt (No such file or directory)
at java.io.FileInputStream.open(Native Method)
at java.io.FileInputStream.<init>(FileInputStream.jav a:120)
at java.io.FileInputStream.<init>(FileInputStream.jav a:79)
at java.io.FileReader.<init>(FileReader.java:41)
at test.readLines(test.java:28)
at test.loadArrays(test.java:18)
at test.main(test.java:10)

Found the solution. Had the data folder in the wrong place. Thanks for your help!