error: cannot find symbol array.add(element);

Question

I have a program that reads from a file, takes each word and adds it to an array as a String. I\'m having a bit of trouble with adding the Strings to the array. I get the e

Answer 1

Use an ArrayList instead of an array:

List array = new ArrayList();

while (scanFile.hasNextLine()) {
    String line = scanFile.nextLine();
    Scanner lineInput = new Scanner(line).useDelimiter("\\s*");
    element = lineInput.next();

    // the add() method is available for Collections but
    // not for primitive arrays
    array.add(element);
    count++; 
 }

for (String element : array) {
    System.out.print("Index = " );
    System.out.printf("%-7d", i);
    System.out.print(",  Element = ");
    System.out.println(element);
}