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There is no red light to stop the program!!!

Posted by Kishori Sharan on December 11, 2000 at 5:11 PM

I think you are getting the file name from command line in

ConsoleReader input = new ConsoleReader(System.in);
String edit = input.readLine(); //input is received here

then in line

String inputLine=in.readLine(); //this is my problem

you are trying to read the first line from the file "edit". So the program should not stop at this point, becuase "in" object reading from a file. I think the file name you are specifying doesn't contain any text so in is returning null and your inputLine is null. But, in no case your program will stop at this point. It must be stoping at first point where you are prompting user to enter file name as in
System.out.print("Please enter the file you wish to edit: ");

Thanx
Kishori