Question

first time post here.

I am in the process of writing a Java program that takes an input text file, reads the contents, and then prints them to the screen and also creates an output file with the contents. I have set up the necessary writers, but when I try to use BufferedReader readername = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(inFile)); it gives me the error in the title.

Any ideas what’s causing it?

Here’s the code.

public class FileReader 
{
    public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException
    {
        try
        {
        File inFile = new File("inputText.txt");
        BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(inFile));
        String line = null;
        BufferedWriter writer = new BufferedWriter(new FileWriter("Contents.txt"));

        while ((line=reader.readLine()) != null)
                    {
                        writer.write(line);
                        System.out.println("File 'Contents.txt' successfully written");
                        System.out.println(line);
                    }
        }
        catch (IOException e)
        {
            System.out.println(e);
        }
    }
}

Answer 1

Use the fully qualified class name java.io.FileReader since you have a class already called FileReader when calling a BufferedReader, like so:

BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new java.io.FileReader(inFile));

Without fully qualifying your FileReader (or specifying imports), the compiler will use your declared FileReader.