Java read file and store text in an array

Question

I know how to read a file with Java using Scanner and File IOException, but the only thing I don\'t know is how to store the text in the files as a

Answer 1

If you don't know the number of lines in your file, you don't have a size with which to init an array. In this case, it makes more sense to use a List :

List tokens = new ArrayList();
while (inFile1.hasNext()) {
    tokens.add(inFile1.nextLine());
}

After that, if you need to, you can copy to an array :

String[] tokenArray = tokens.toArray(new String[0]);