Please! this is driving me nuts (beginner)

i dont really understand what u mean.....
so do u want to open the file? and like read the lines in it (for .txt)?
or does it not open

in java, file names cant have "\n" or "\t" or almost anything with a "\"
so u ahve to write "\\" instead of "\"
e.g. D:\\Test\\test.txt

if u need help opening it then try this:

FileReader fr = null;
BufferedReader br = null;
try
{
fr = new FileReader("D:\\Test\\Test.txt");
br = new BufferedReader(fr);

while ( br.ready() ) // chains
{
String str = br.readLine();
String before = jTextArea1.getText();
jTextArea1.setText(before + str + "\n");
}
} // try
catch (IOException e)
{
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
}
finally
{
try {
br.close();
fr.close();
} catch (IOException e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
}
}

sorry for its weird size =p

this is some code from an app i made

hope i helped =\