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

That's not how you add an element to Java array. Keep a counter outside the loop that will be incremented inside the loop block and then add elements like below:

int i = 0;
while(.....){
    .
    .
    array[i] = //element to be added
    i++;
}