Hi
I only started studying java as a curiousity thing 3 months ago. Naturally i'm intreaged an i'm really enjoying it but the online corse is really vage as to a lot of things. My current assignment is to create a database for a sports team. he says that we have to be able to save and load the information in the program. I should also note the entire thing is in Holts Ready to program. Here is the menu: 

int choice;
            do 
            {
            c.println("1.Enter player data");
            c.println("2.Vew players by last name");
            c.println("3.Veiw players by points");
            c.println("4.Add another player"); 
            c.println("5.Deleate a player");
            c.println("6.Modify a player");
            c.println("7.FInd a player by any feild");
            c.println("8.Save data");
            c.println("9.Load previous data");
            c.println("What is it that you would like to do?");
            choice=c.readInt();
            if (choice==1)EnterData();
            if (choice==2)LastName();
            if (choice==3)Points();
            if (choice==4)AddPlayer();
            if (choice==5)Deleate();
            if (choice==6)Modify();
            if (choice==8)saving(); 
            if (choice==9)Loading();
        }
        while (choice!=10);
    }
for Loading and saving it is telling becasue I use IOException i need to "enclose the subroutine in a try statement that catches the exception or declare that this subroutine throws the excption" nither of witch i understnd below is the two subroutines themselves:
     public static void saving() throws IOException
     {
        int Y;
        PrintWriter fileoutput,FileOutput;
        fileoutput=new PrintWriter(new FileWriter("Playered.txt"));
        fileoutput.println(Players);
        for (Y=1;Y<=Players;Y++)
        {
            fileoutput.print(Playered[Y][1]);
            fileoutput.print(Playered[Y][2]);
            fileoutput.print(Playered[Y][3]);
            fileoutput.print(Numbers[Y][1]);
            fileoutput.print(Numbers[Y][2]);
         }
    }
    public static void Loading()throws IOException
    {
    String line;
    int Y,Lines;
    BufferedReader fileinput;
    fileinput= new BufferedReader(new FileReader("playered.text"));
    line=fileinput.readLine();
    Players=Integer.valueOf(line).intValue();
    c.print(Players);
    for (Y=1;Y<=Players;Y++)
    {
    Playered[Y][1]=fileinput.readLine();
    Playered[Y][2]=fileinput.readLine();
    Playered[Y][3]=fileinput.readLine();
    Numbers[Y][1]=Integer.valueOf(line).intValue();
    Numbers[Y][2]=Integer.valueOf(line).intValue();
    c.println("reading the record for: "+Playered[Y][1]);
    c.println("reading the record for: "+Playered[Y][2]);
    c.println("reading the record for: "+Playered[Y][3]);
    c.println("reading the record for: "+Numbers[Y][1]);
    c.println("Reading the record for: "+Numbers[Y][2]);
    }
    fileinput.close();
    }

As you can see my program uses subroutines that are both strings and Integer nested arrays. I'm not shure if this matters but it beats forgetting something. Thanks
littlemissparadox