Hi,

I'm still sorta new to Java, and so don't have a great understanding of it
so sorry if the answer to this is painfully obvious.

What I'm trying to do is to open a txt file, but only have the first line
of it read into a text area I have.

I can successfully read in the whole document, whoever I can't work out
how to just get the first line read it.

Here is the coding for the section that I'm pretty sure needs to be
adjusted.

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public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent evt) {
       if (evt.getSource() == openItem) {
           String fileName;
           fileName = fileField.getText();
           try {
            inFile = new BufferedReader(
              new FileReader(fileName));
               documentArea.setText("");  

   while( ( line = inFile.readLine() ) != null) {
          documentArea.append(line + "\n");
       }
              inFile.close();
           }

     catch (IOException e) {
       System.err.println("Error in file " + fileName + ": "
                                  + e.toString() );
               System.exit(1);
           }
       }

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I'm pretty sure its the While statement that reads in the whole file. So
i'm pretty sure I need to edit that bit.

All help is welcome!

Thank you very much in advance!