Java error: Default constructor cannot handle exception type FileNotFound Exception

Question

I\'m trying to read input from a file to be taken into a Java applet to be displayed as a Pac-man level, but I need to use something similar to getLine()... So I searched fo

Answer 1

You need to surround your code with try and catch as follows:

try {
    File inFile = new File("textfile.txt");
    FileInputStream fstream = new FileInputStream(inFile);//ERROR
} catch (FileNotFoundException fe){
    fe.printStackTrace();
}
// Get the object of DataInputStream
DataInputStream in = new DataInputStream(fstream);
BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(in));