StringTokenizer problems

[Xi_is4COW]

I'm trying to load all of the words in a text file into a hashset...but it seems that the first letter is already deleted off automatically for some reason

code:

// The "ArgChecker" class. import java.io.*; import java.util.*; public class ArgChecker {     public static void main (String [] args) throws IOException     {         Set allwords = new HashSet ();         String str;         BufferedReader wordfile = new BufferedReader (new FileReader ("dictionary.txt"));         StringTokenizer words;         while (wordfile.read () != -1)         {             words = new StringTokenizer (wordfile.readLine ());             while (words.hasMoreTokens ())             {                 str = String.valueOf (words.nextToken ());                 System.out.println (str);                 allwords.add (str);             }         }         System.out.println (allwords);         // Place your code here     } // main method } // ArgChecker class

[McKenzie]

The line:

code:

while (wordfile.read () != -1)

takes the first letter off.
try:

code:

while(line = wordfile.readLine() != null)         {             words = new StringTokenizer (line); ...

OR
make a custom method that uses read to read one word at a time.

[Xi_is4COW]

whoa...i didnt know you noticed the post, well thanks for the help, i'll try that right away.

[Xi_is4COW]

Err....I tried the

code:

while(line=wordfile.readLine() != null)

thing but it seems like i dont know how to declare the line variable...

[Martin]

On the line above that, declare the variable line as a String.

Java:

String line;

[wtd]

Is there some reason the declaration has to be separate?

[Xi_is4COW]

Martin wrote:

On the line above that, declare the variable line as a String.

Java:

String line;

I tried that, but it just gave me an error that said that the left side "String" was not compatible with the right side "boolean"

[wtd]

code:

line = wordfile.readLine() != null

Is being read as:

code:

line = (wordfile.readLine() != null)

[Xi_is4COW]

wtd wrote:

code:

line = wordfile.readLine() != null

Is being read as:

code:

line = (wordfile.readLine() != null)

So what exactly am I supposed to change in order to make it work?

[Martin]

The problem is the order of operations.

code:

line = wordfile.readLine() != null

becomes:

code:

line = (wordfile.readLine() != null)

Which evaluates to line = true or line = false.

Think about it like this. If you wanted to evaluate 4+3 * 2 so that it gave you 7 * 2 = 14 (instead of 4 + 6 = 10), you would have to write it as (4+3)*2

So what you want to do is set line to wordfile.readLine(), and then check to see if line is null (just like in the above how we want to add 4 and 3, and then multiply the result by 2). How would you do this using brackets?

[Xi_is4COW]

Oh I see I see....it was only a misplacement of brackets that was messing me up..
Thanks alot to everyone who helped out