Java says FileNotFoundException but file exists

Question

I have an assignment for my CS class where it says to read a file with several test scores and asks me to sum and average them. While summing and averaging is easy, I am hav

Answer 1

I had this same error and solved it simply by adding the src directory that is found in Java project structure.

String path = System.getProperty("user.dir") + "\\src\\package_name\\file_name";
File file = new File(path);
Scanner scanner = new Scanner(file);

Notice that System.getProperty("user.dir") and new File(".").getAbsolutePath() return your project root directory path, so you have to add the path to your subdirectories and packages