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    <p>You want some nested loops to read the file.</p> <p>That's a poor way to describe the file-format. "Section" describes a section of the file. You can say that each section defines a category, with the first line the name of the category, subequent lines pairs of questions and answers, and terminated by a blank line/ or EOF.</p> <p>In pseudocode, essentially you want:</p> <pre><code>List&lt;Category&gt; categories = new ArrayList(); while (in.hasNextLine()) { String catName = in.readLine(); if (catName.trim().length() == 0) continue; // skip extra blank lines between Sections. Category cat = new Category( catName); categories.add( cat); while (in.hasNextLine()) { String line = in.readLine(); if (line.trim().length() == 0) break; // end of Section. // parse a Question &amp; it's Answer. TriviaQuestion question = parseQuestion( line); cat.addQuestion( question); } } // done. return categories; </code></pre> <blockquote> <p>I am supposed to make an ArrayList that will have 6 indexes. One for each category, then in each of the indexes i should have groups of questions and answers that I will be able to utilize for comparison.</p> </blockquote> <p>That's a fairly confused way of talking about something that actually should be pretty simple. You could say "there will be 6 categories". But actually, it's not necessary to fix or predetermine the size of the ArrayList -- so why mumble about this at all?</p> <blockquote> <p>I guess essentially an array inside of an arraylist.</p> </blockquote> <p>Use an ArrayList (indirectly) inside of an ArrayList. Lists/ArrayLists are much better to build dynamically, because (unlike an array) they don't have to be pre-sized or grown.</p> <p>But note that the 'Questions' list, should be held inside of the Category obect.</p>
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    1. COThank you for your help. Im still pretty new to programming so I'm sorry for my lack of understanding of the terminology.
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