shiptoncraig

All the best.

You can't take stuff like that personally. Unless you're the guy making the controversial decisions at Zynga, you're a guy just doing his job and focussing on the smaller picture.

"Jamie and Adam Tested"?!

@DrDarkStryfe said:

@shiptoncraig said:

I don't get why this is even necessary. It was never required before and it isn't required now.

The fact that he will be walking into the place that kicked him out makes it required.

Also, the people that ran Gamespot back then do not exist. CBSi bought up CNET in 2008.

What is required is for Jeff and the team to come to terms with the situation. Whether we like it or not, we don't have to know the intricacies for the acquisition to happen.

I don't get why this is even necessary. It was never required before and it isn't required now.

Could you

• paste the bit of code you currently have.
• check if the file you are trying to access exists in the right location.
• check that the file isn't currently opened in an editor?

Let's crack this thing.

@AnimalFather said:

@shiptoncraig said:

@AnimalFather said:

@IllegalizePelvicThrusts said:

As far as hints go, take a look at this lesson on file i/o from the official Java Tutorials. Pay close attention to Character Streams and Buffered Streams. Your slashes seem to be backwards in that string. Remember that "\x" (where x is a character) is considered an escape sequence, so "C:\n" will get interpreted as "C:\<newline>".

i changed the slashes and not it only give the invalid escape seq error

If you do what @Frostmane suggested and use File.separator/String concatenation, what happens then?

thats greek for me.

FileReader f = new FileReader("C:/Grey/Monaco/Desktop/TheList.txt")

Would become:

FileReader f = new FileReader("C:" + File.separator + "Grey" + File.separator + "Monaco" + File.separator + "Desktop" + File.separator + "TheList.txt");

or:

String separator = File.separator;

FileReader f = new FileReader("C:" + separator + "Grey" + separator + "Monaco" + separator + "Desktop" + separator + "TheList.txt");

Better yet, instead of using loads of separate strings and concatenation, use a StringBuilder or StringBuffer object.

@AnimalFather said:

@IllegalizePelvicThrusts said:

As far as hints go, take a look at this lesson on file i/o from the official Java Tutorials. Pay close attention to Character Streams and Buffered Streams. Your slashes seem to be backwards in that string. Remember that "\x" (where x is a character) is considered an escape sequence, so "C:\n" will get interpreted as "C:\<newline>".

i changed the slashes and not it only give the invalid escape seq error

If you do what @Frostmane suggested and use File.separator/String concatenation, what happens then?

I've always used a BufferedReader, with a FileReader in the constructor. What kind of exception are you getting back?

He probably acted in self-defense and then once the bully was weak, he saw an opportunity to give him back all the grief he had received for x amount of time.