I'm getting a FileNotFoundException error...

I'm using scanner to read from a txt file, and I have the following:

Code:

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Scanner scan = new Scanner(new File("grades.txt"));

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and I'm getting this error:

unreported exception java.io.FileNotFoundException; must be caught or declared to be thrown.

I also tried putting grades.txt at c:/grades.txt and did new File("c:/grades.txt") but that still gave me the same error. Any ideas?

That just means you have to handle an exception, put that code in a try/catch block:

Code:

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try
{  Scanner scan = new Scanner(new File("grades.txt"));
.........
}
catch (FileNotFoundException e) { e.printStackTrace(); }

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or the alternative is to declare the method to throw an exception where that code is in:

Code:

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void read() throws FileNotFoundException
{    Scanner scan = new Scanner(new File("grades.txt"));
.....
}

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Thanks!