Question

I have an assignment and we have a couple of classes given, one of them is a filereader class, which has a method to read files and it is called with a parameter (String) containing the file path, now i have a couple of .txt files and they’re in the same folder as the .java files so i thought i could just pass along file.txt as filepath (like in php, relatively) but that always returns an file not found exception!

Seen the fact that the given class should be working correctly and that i verified that the classes are really in the same folder workspace/src as the .java files i must be doing something wrong with the filepath String, but what?

This is my code:

private static final String fileF = "File.txt";
private static final ArrayList<String[]> instructionsF =
CreatureReader.readInstructions(fileF);

Answer 1

Put this:

File here = new File(".");
System.out.println(here.getAbsolutePath());

somewhere in your code. It will print out the current directory of your program.

Then, simply put the file there, or change the filepath.