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Storing file content into an array

I’m programming a simple hangman program. I am having difficulty with opening a file, and then storing the data into an array. I can’t seem to figure out how to do it. This is for a school project so if the logic seems unnecessary, just blame the man 🙂

I have a text file (words.txt) with ten words in it. They are in the file with a line in between each of them. They need to be imported into an array. Anyone care to help a young aspiring programmer out? Thanks for any help you can give!

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I suggest you use a List<String> (such as ArrayList<String>) and a Scanner (construct it using new Scanner(new File("wordfile.txt")), and use scanner.hasNextLine()/scanner.nextLine()) to read the words.

If you indeed need it to be an array, go through list.toArray in the end.