I am writing a project that reads a file and sorts "Words". This code compiles correctly, yet then it gives me a null pointer exception. Any Ideas?
import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
import java.util.Scanner;
import java.util.Hashtable;
public class Lab {
Hashtable<String, Word> words = new Hashtable<String, Word>();
public void addWord(String s, int i) {
if (words.containsKey(s)) {
words.get(s).addOne();
words.get(s).addLine(i);
} else {
words.put(s, new Word(s));
words.get(s).addLine(i);
}
}
public void main(String[] args) {
System.out.println("HI");
File file = new File("s.txt");
int linecount = 1;
try {
Scanner scanner = new Scanner(file);
System.out.println("HUH");
while (scanner.hasNextLine()) {
String line = scanner.nextLine();
while (line != null) {
String word = scanner.next();
addWord(word, linecount);
}
linecount++;
}
} catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
}
The exception's stacktrace is:
java.lang.NullPointerException
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)
at edu.rice.cs.drjava.model.compiler.JavacCompiler.runCommand(JavacCompiler.java:271)
This while
loop is strange:
while (scanner.hasNextLine()) {
String line = scanner.nextLine();
while (line != null) {
String word = scanner.next();
addWord(word, linecount);
}
linecount++;
}
If your input file is:
a
b
Then scanner.nextLine()
would be return a
, then scanner.next()
would return b
, because nextLine
returns the next end-line delimited String, and next
returns the next token from the input file. Is this really what you want? I'd suggest trying this:
while (scanner.hasNextLine()) {{
String word = scanner.nextLine();
addWord(word, linecount);
linecount++;
}
Keep in mind that this would only work if there's only a word per line. If you want to handle multiple words per line, it'd be slightly longer:
while (scanner.hasNextLine()) {{
String line = scanner.nextLine();
Scanner lineScanner = new Scanner(line);
while(lineScanner.hasNext()) {
addWord(lineScanner.next(), linecount);
}
linecount++;
}