title: reading txt file and writing a dictionary
body: <p>My objective is to eventually make a spell checker but I need a dictionary of words to do that. </p>
  
  <p>Here I'm trying to allow the user to input any number of text files as long as there's a space in between the file names ("novel1.txt novel2.txt novel3.txt"). </p>
  
  <p>I will use every word from these novels to write to a .dat file of individual words on individual lines(i.e. a dictionary of words). However I'm getting a file not found error at <code>Scanner read = new Scanner(new File(filenames[i]));</code> even though I know that I have the file. </p>
  
  <p>I have even tried putting it in the source package to make sure it could be found. </p>
  
  <p>At the very bottom of my code is a small test I ran (commenting out the other code first) and it does indeed print "war.txt isn't a file," even though I can clearly see that I have the txt file and have typed it correctly. </p>
  
  <p>Can somebody tell me why java isn't seeing my txt file or maybe doesn't think it is a normal file?</p>
  
  <pre><code>public static void main(String[] args) throws FileNotFoundException {
  
      Scanner in = new Scanner(System.in);
  
      System.out.println("Please enter the file names exactly.");
  
      String userInput = in.nextLine();
      String[] filenames = userInput.split(" "); // turning user input string into a string array so I can look at each string individually
  
      // takes each individual string from filenames and turns each one into the file
      // that the string should represent then adds the file's contents to my dictionary
      for(int i = 0; i &lt; filenames.length; i++){
          Scanner read = new Scanner(new File(filenames[i]));
          String word = null;
          while(read.hasNext()){
              if(read.next().length() &gt;= 2){
                  word = read.next();
                  // write word into myDict.dat
              }
              System.out.println(word);
          }
      }
      File war = new File("war.txt");
      if(!war.isFile()){
          System.out.println(war + " isn't a file.");
      }
  }
  </code></pre>