Thread: How do you call a method from the same non-application class?

I have a read method that reads information from a file into an array. I have to be able to call that method to another method in that same class that uses the information in the array. I'v been stuck on this for a while now and I have no idea what to do. Any help is appreciated.

What doesn't work? Do you get any errors/exceptions? If so post them.

I'm not getting any errors because I have no idea how to even try it. I want to be able to use the read method in the display method, which displays the information of a certain student depending on what ID the method accepts.

public void read(File input)
{
input = new File("Enrollment.txt");

try
{
Scanner in = new Scanner(input);
int i = 0;

while (in.hasNextLine() && i < students.length)
{
fName = in.next();
lName = in.nextLine();
uid = in.nextLine();
hours = in.nextInt();
in.nextLine();
major = in.nextLine();

students[i] = new Student();

i++;
}
}
catch (FileNotFoundException e)
{
System.out.println("The file could not be found.");
}
}





public void displayStudent(String unid)
{
String lName = getLName(), fName = getFName(), major = getMajor();
int i = 0, hours = getHours();
File input = new File("Enrollment.txt");
Scanner in = null;

try
{
in = new Scanner(input);

while (in.hasNext())
{
if (unid.equals(uid))
{
System.out.println(students[i]);
System.out.println(fName + lName + "\n" + uid + "\n"
+ hours + "\n" + major);
}

else
{
System.out.println("The UID does not exist.");
}

i++;
}
}

catch (FileNotFoundException e)
{
System.out.println("The file was not found.");
}
}