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Thread: Reading from a txt file into 3 arraylists and save it as double

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    Default Reading from a txt file into 3 arraylists and save it as double

    Here's my code so far, as I understand it it doesn't succeed reading in the numbers,

    I have a txt file which is tab delimited, in 3 columns and a lot of rows, e.g
    1 23 343
    2 34 355
    3 31 435
    ...
    etc.
    ...

    So, i want to read in every number from the txt file into 3 different Array lists.


     
     
    import java.util.ArrayList;
    import java.io.FileReader;
    import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
    import java.io.BufferedReader;
    import java.io.IOException;
     
     
    public class dataIn {
     
        public void readFile()
        {
        String line = null;
     
        ArrayList[] chData = new ArrayList[3];
     
        try {
     
            FileReader fr = new FileReader("ch.txt");
            BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(fr);
            while((line = br.readLine()) != null) {
     
     
     
                String[] theLine = line.split("\\t");
     
                chlData[0].add(Double.parseDouble(theLine[0]));
                chlData[1].add(Double.parseDouble(theLine[1]));
                chlData[2].add(Double.parseDouble(theLine[2]));
            }
     
        }
     
        catch(FileNotFoundException fN) {
            fN.printStackTrace();
        }
     
        catch(IOException e) {
            System.out.println(e);
        }
     
     
     
     
     
        }
     
    }

    Thanks in advance.


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    Default Re: Reading from a txt file into 3 arraylists and save it as double

    Can you explain what your problem is? Does the program compile ok and execute?
    If not, copy and paste here the full text of the error message.
    If it executes, does it do what you want?
    If not show what it does do and explain what you want different.

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    Default Re: Reading from a txt file into 3 arraylists and save it as double

    Quote Originally Posted by Norm View Post
    Can you explain what your problem is? Does the program compile ok and execute?
    If not, copy and paste here the full text of the error message.
    If it executes, does it do what you want?
    If not show what it does do and explain what you want different.
    Hmm, i tried to reply but the message got lost. Trying again.

    The program compiles ok but the error occurs when i execute it. Here's the error messages.
    "run:
    Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException
    at pocp.dataIn.readFile(dataIn.java:38)
    at pocp.PoCP.main(PoCP.java:19)
    Java Result: 1
    BUILD SUCCESSFUL (total time: 1 second)"

    I want it to store the numbers in 3 different array lists. I have tried to print out the results from the different steps and as far as I understand it doesn't read in the numbers properly and gets stuck when it should read in the numbers for the first time in the first arraylist due to it's empty.

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    What variable is null at line 38 in your program? When you see which one, back track to see why it has a null value.

    it doesn't read in the numbers properly
    Can you describe what happens?

    Print out the contents of the line variable to see what was read:
    System.out.println("line=" + line);

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    Default Re: Reading from a txt file into 3 arraylists and save it as double

    Quote Originally Posted by Norm View Post
    What variable is null at line 38 in your program? When you see which one, back track to see why it has a null value.


    Can you describe what happens?

    Print out the contents of the line variable to see what was read:
    System.out.println("line=" + line);

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    Line 38 is

    chlData[0].add(Double.parseDouble(theLine[0]));

    It did write out the values from value "line" before line 38 at it actually snaps up the correct numbers. And when I print out the value "theLine[0]" before line 38 it also works.
    However, it gets stuck at line 38 so I gues the problem is somewhere in the add-function at line 38? Can you see something there which ain't right?

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    What was the last line printed out before the error?
    For more info add this after the call to split()
    System.out.println("theLines=" + java.util.Arrays.toString(theLines));

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    Default Re: Reading from a txt file into 3 arraylists and save it as double

    Quote Originally Posted by Norm View Post
    What was the last line printed out before the error?
    For more info add this after the call to split()
    System.out.println("theLines=" + java.util.Arrays.toString(theLines));

    When i write it I get this message

    run:
    theLine=[1, 622803, 6.1]
    Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException
    	at pocp.dataIn.readFile(dataIn.java:40)
    	at pocp.PoCP.main(PoCP.java:19)
    Java Result: 1
    BUILD SUCCESSFUL (total time: 2 seconds)

    And the split seems to work, because when i write

               System.out.println(theLine[0]);
               System.out.println(theLine[1]);
               System.out.println(theLine[2]);


    I get this before the error

    run:
    1
    622803
    6.1
    Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException
    	at pocp.dataIn.readFile(dataIn.java:42)
    	at pocp.PoCP.main(PoCP.java:19)
    Java Result: 1
    BUILD SUCCESSFUL (total time: 1 second)

    And printing out ChlData before line 38 it shows null, which is as it should be.

    So the only two conclusions I can get is that the ArrayList is somehow not declarated properly, or that the parseDouble function isn't working.

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    Default Re: Reading from a txt file into 3 arraylists and save it as double

    I have solved the problem now, I didn't declare the array lists properly.

    Thank you so much for all your help!

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