Problem with using Vector

[WXY595]

There is a text file named 'stoplist' containing a list of words, like this:

a
the
they
we
be
is
...

What I wanna do is to store them in a Vector. I've got the following code:

Vector stopList = new Vector();
File stoplist = new File("C:\\Text_Preprocessing\\stoplist.txt");
FileReader stopword = new FileReader(stoplist);
int s = stopword.read();
while (s != -1) {
StringBuffer StopString = new StringBuffer();
if (s!='\n') StopString.append((char)s);
else stopList.addElement(StopString.toString());
}
stopword.close();

However, it can not be run! Where is the problem?

[destin]

You need to catch IOException.

Except I don't really see why you're going through all that trouble to read store lines. Here's a quicker way:

import java.util.*;
import java.io.*;

public class FileReaderExample {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        ArrayList wordList = new ArrayList();
        try {
            BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new FileReader("someFile.txt"));
            String line;
            while ((line = in.readLine()) != null) {
                wordList.add(line);
            }
            in.close();
        } catch (IOException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
}

Useful links:
The Java(tm) Tutorial: Handling Errors Using Exceptions
Exceptions in Java
Java Exceptions
Exception Handling in Java
Java Olympus: Java Exceptions
Java Programming Notes: Exceptions