hey folks, i'm a newbie here, and this place looks very helpul. im also a JAVA beginner and i have a question pertaining to the code above. what if when you read in the datafile, you want the data so that you can use one or more of the fields in another class? i guess you would use an array, but how would that go? i have a datafile that's delimited with commas, it has text values, int values, and double values that make up one record, much like the datafile described by jrmorgan56, and i need to multiply 2 of the fields together for each record, and then sum all that up. did anyone understand all that jibberish? i guess im stuck on how to create and access the array correctly from another class.