reading tab delimited textfile java

Question

10
aaa aaa aaa
bbb bbb bbb
ccc ccc ccc
ffffd ffffd ffffd

I have a textfile that Im trying to read with tab delimiters. whenever i read the file, i get an

Answer 1

This way your code loses this ugly break (break are most of the time avoidable ...)

  try{
    Scanner scan = new Scanner(new File("1.txt"));
    String line="";
    int readline = Integer.parseInt(scan.nextLine());//

    while (scan.hasNextLine())
    {
        line = scan.nextLine();

        if(!line.equals("aaa")){
           String[] split=line.split("\t");
           array.add(split);
        }
    }  

And about your problem I think you are initializing your array with the integer on the first line but it is 10 and you have 12 elements. Thus the index out of bounds but your question remains unclear ...