I'm trying to get saved data in a text file to an array to use it in my code and then search this array for a string submitted from the user from the GUI , but for some reason I print out the data in the array it is all null. here's the code !!
import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
import java.io.FileWriter;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.PrintWriter;
import java.util.Scanner;
public class IO {
File f = new File("DB.txt");
PrintWriter write;
Scanner input;
String[][] data;
String nameToSearch;
// search constructor
public IO(String name) {
super();
nameToSearch = name;
try {
input = new Scanner(f);
} catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
System.out.println("File not found please restart the program");
}
data = new String[linesCounter()][2];
int i = 0;
while (input.hasNext()) {
data[i][0] = input.nextLine();
data[i][1] = input.nextLine();
i++;
}
}
public IO(String name, String number) {
try {
write = new PrintWriter(new FileWriter(f, true));
} catch (IOException e) {
System.out.println("Error");
}
write.println(name);
write.println(number);
write.close();
}
int linesCounter() {
try {
input = new Scanner(f);
} catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
System.out.println("File not found please restart the program");
}
int counter = 0;
while (input.hasNext()) {
input.nextLine();
counter++;
}
return counter / 2;
}
int contactFinder() {
int i = 0;
while (input.hasNext()) {
if (data[i][0].equalsIgnoreCase(nameToSearch))
return i;
i++;
}
return -1;
}
String nameGetter() {
return data[contactFinder()][0];
}
String numGetter() {
return data[contactFinder()][1];
}
}