text area

I'm trying to create a program where i have an array that holds my image names on a split pane and on the other side of the pane it shows a picture of the selected name.This part of the program works fine but i also have a text area on the frame and what i want it to do is display the text file that pairs with the name selected in the split pane(just like the image). When i run the program the image shows but cmd displays an error message of " java.io.FileNotFoundException: \example.txt <The system cannot find the file specified> The picture of example will show where its supposed to but not the text here is part of my code that deals with this...

Code:

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        public void valueChanged(ListSelectionEvent e)
        {
                JList list = (JList)e.getSource();
                updateLabel(imageNames[list.getSelectedIndex()]);

        }
        protected void updateLabel (String name)
        {
                ImageIcon icon = createImageIcon("/" + name + ".gif");
                picture.setIcon(icon);
                if (icon != null)
                {
                        picture.setText(null);
                } else {
                        picture.setText("Image not found");
                }
                try
                {
                        FileReader reader = new FileReader("/" + name + ".txt");
                        BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(reader);
                        fullDes.read( br, null );
                        br.close();
                        fullDes.requestFocus();
                }
                catch(Exception e2) {System.out.println(e2); }
        }



        protected static ImageIcon createImageIcon(String path)
        {
                java.net.URL imgURL = GuideScreen.class.getResource(path);
                if (imgURL != null)
                {
                        return new ImageIcon(imgURL);
                } else {
                        System.err.println("Could't find file: " + path);
                        return null;
                }
        }

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(PS fullDes is my textArea).

Also posted at: http://forums.devshed.com/java-help-...ml#post2898527

problem fix i simply removed the slash "/" and just kept the quotes empty.