Reading textfile into arrayList

Question

How would you rad a textfile that is a bunch of seven letter words back to back into an ArrayList. EX: flowersflowersflowersflowersflowersflowers

I need to read them into the ArrayList as a single column. EX: Flowers flowers flowers flowers

The words are not all the same, I just used flowers as an example, all of the words in the textfile are different.

A little little bit of additionally info, I dont know how many words are in the textfile I'm trying to read into the ArrayList.

Any help/example of code would be awesome!

Are they all 7-letters long and on the same line? In that case, you should be able to use substring. — Pokechu22, Dec 01 '14 at 18:20
It's not impossible if they are all guaranteed to be 7 letters. — brso05, Dec 01 '14 at 18:22
That's true ! @cding001 plz show us what you did so as we can help you ! — Anarki, Dec 01 '14 at 18:23
possible duplicate of [Split string to equal length substrings in Java](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3760152/split-string-to-equal-length-substrings-in-java) — smac89, Dec 01 '14 at 18:26

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 01 '14 at 18:43

this should work.

File myFile = new File("data.txt");
BufferedReader readBuffer = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(myFile));

ArrayList<String> myArrayList = new ArrayList<String>();

String line = null;
while ((line = readBuffer.readLine()) != null) {
    while (line.length() > 0) {
        myArrayList.add(line.substring(0,6);
        line = line.substring(7);
    }
}

readBuffer.close();

Reading textfile into arrayList

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