Question

I’ve had this problem a few times, where I’ve created another class file and the main class file can’t find it.
Here’s the main class file:

package textfiles;

import java.io.IOException;
 public class FileData
 {

public static void main(String[] args)
{
    String file_name = "Lines.txt";

    try {
        ReadFile file = new ReadFile(file_name);
        String[] aryLines = file.OpenFile();

        for(int i =0; i<aryLines.length; i++)
        {
            System.out.println(aryLines);
        }
    }

    catch(IOException e)
    {   
        System.out.println(e.getMessage());
    }
}
  }

Here is the class file it can’t find:

package textfiles;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.FileReader;
import java.io.BufferedReader;

 public class ReadFile
 {
private String path;
int numberOfLines=0;

public ReadFile(String file_path)
{
    path = file_path;
}

public String[] OpenFile() throws IOException
{
    FileReader fr = new FileReader(path);
    BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(fr);

    int numberOfLines = readLines();
    String[] textData = new String[numberOfLines];

    for(int i=0; i<numberOfLines; i++)
    {
        textData[i] = br.readLine();
    }

    br.close();
    return textData;
}

int readLines() throws IOException
{
    FileReader file_to_read = new FileReader(path);
    BufferedReader bf = new BufferedReader(file_to_read);

    String aLine;

    while((aLine = bf.readLine()) != null)
    {
        numberOfLines++;
    }

    bf.close();
    return numberOfLines;
}
  }

I’ve tried running javac textfiles\ReadFile.java and javac textfiles\FileData.java as a suggestion for this. That doesn’t work. I’ve made sure I have compiled ReadFile and fixed all the errors there.
The compiler error I get is:

C:\Users\Liloka\Source>javac FileData.java
FileData.java:13: cannot find symbol
symbol  : class ReadFile
location: class textfiles.FileData
                    ReadFile file = new ReadFile(file_name);
                    ^
  FileData.java:13: cannot find symbol
  symbol  : class ReadFile
  location: class textfiles.FileData
                    ReadFile file = new ReadFile(file_name);
                                        ^
  2 errors

I’m using notepad++and .cmd so it can’t be an IDE error.
Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

Make sure the java files are all in the textfiles directory:

textfiles/FileData.java
textfiles/ReadFile.java

And run:

javac textfiles/FileData.java textfiles/ReadFile.java 
java textfiles.FileData

Your code works without any modification. I think you are compiling from a wrong directory:

C:\Users\Liloka\Source>javac FileData.java

Move the FileData.java to the textfiles directory.