Read file contents into an ArrayList

Question

On a previous project I was required to read file contents into an array. Now I have to do the same thing only I have to read the contents into an ArrayList. A few problems I

Answer 1

Instead of assigning the line to array[i], simply do arrayList.add(line)

If this is not homework, consider using some 3rd party utilities like apache-commons FileUtils.readLines(..) or guava Files.readLines(..)

Answer 2

The if condition will always be false:

for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++) {
    if(i > 10) {
        System.out.println("The file you are accessing contains more than 10      input values.  Please edit the file you wish to use so that it contains"
                        + "> 10 input values.  The program will now exit.");
                System.exit(0);
    }

To append to an ArrayList use its add() method. ArrayList has a method size() which you could use to determine if the file contained more than ten inputs.

EDIT:

The terminating condition of your for loop should be based on numbers.length, and not ten.