Text file to ArrayList

I have a text file and now am suppose to read the text file and assign it to ArrayList<CourseSection> schedule.

This is what I have so far:

ArrayList<CourseSection> schedule = new ArrayList<CourseSection>();
while(fileReader.hasNextLine())
for (int index = 0; index < schedule.size(); index++)
{
schedule.add(fileReader.nextLine())
}
When I complie I get: cannot find symbol method add(java.util.String)

I guess fileReader is a Scanner. The nextLine() method returns a String. Since you've declared your List as an ArrayList<CourseSection>, the add() method expects the argument to be a CourseSection object, not a String. Can you convert the String into a CourseSection object before adding it to the ArrayList? Or, you could use an ArrayList<String> instead.

thank you for your post. I will try your suggest. The next problem that I am having is the reader puts everything on one line and the file is a list with ten things.

what is a CourseSection object? Not sure I understand.

That is a data type that you have written as a Java Object, or it is in the source code of a project that you are working on.

I have had no success in: converting the String into a CourseSection object. Can somebody help?

"Domain", please check your private messages. Thanks.

No one else here knows anything about this "CourseSection" thing. That's something that came from your code. Or code that someone else wrote, but we can't see it. Where did you hear of "CourseSection"? Is it a class that you can look at? Does the class have any constructors, or static methods that return a CourseSection object?