public void populateNotesFromFile() { try{ BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(DEFAULT_NOTES_SAVED)); String fileNotes = reader.readLine(); while(fileNotes != null){ notes.add(fileNotes); fileNotes = reader.readLine(); } reader.close(); } catch (IOException e){ System.err.println("The desired file " + DEFAULT_NOTES_SAVED + " has problems being read from"); } catch (FileNotFoundException e){ System.err.println("Unable to open " + DEFAULT_NOTES_SAVED); } //make sure we have one note if (notes.size() == 0){ notes.add("There are no notes stored in your note book"); } }

Whenever i compile the above i get a message saying cannot find symbol class IOException e

can someone tell me how to fix it please :d

thanks

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IOException is a class from the java.io package, so in order to use it, you should add an import declaration to your code. import java.io.*; (at the very top of the java file, between the package name and your class declaration)

FileNotFoundException is a IOException. It's a specialisation of IOException. Once you have caught the IOException, the flow of the program will never get to the point of checking for a more specific IOException. Just swap these two, to test for the more specific case first (FileNotFound) and then handle (catch) any other possible IOExceptions.

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You need

import java.io;

at the top of your file.

Also, FileNotFoundException needs to be above IOException since it's a subclass of IOException.

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Your probably missing an import reference to IOException class. I'ts located in the java.io package.

Can I suggest a litle change in you method? Always close the stream in a finally block:

public void populateNotesFromFile() { BufferedReader reader = null; try { reader = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(DEFAULT_NOTES_SAVED)); String fileNotes = reader.readLine(); while (fileNotes != null) { notes.add(fileNotes); fileNotes = reader.readLine(); } } catch (FileNotFoundException e) { System.err.println("Unable to open " + DEFAULT_NOTES_SAVED); } catch (IOException e) { System.err.println("The desired file " + DEFAULT_NOTES_SAVED + " has problems being read from"); } finally { try { reader.close(); } catch (IOException e) { e.printStackTrace(); } } // make sure we have one note if (notes.size() == 0) { notes.add("There are no notes stored in your note book"); } }

You need to either import the java.io.* package at the top of the file, or fully-qualify the exception as java.io.IOException

Switch the order of FileNotFoundException and IOException

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