title: java.io.FileNotFoundException, The system cannot find the path specified (cvs file) java
body: <p>All seems to be in order, but somehow it isn't.
  Here is the code;</p>
  
  <pre><code>import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
  import java.io.FileReader;
  import java.io.IOException;
  import java.util.List;
  
       String csvFilename = "src/example.csv"; 
              CSVReader csvReader = new CSVReader(new FileReader(csvFilename));
              String[] row = null;
              String total = "";
              while((row = csvReader.readNext()) != null) {
  
                  for( int i = 0 ; i &lt; 200 ; i++ ){  // no higher than num of columns to be found or error
  
                      String saveAway = row[i];
                      //tabl[saveInThisRow][i] = row[i];
                      tabl[saveInThisRow][i] = saveAway.replace('_', ' ');
  
                  }
                  saveInThisRow++;
                  if(saveInThisRow == 50) { saveInThisRow = 0; break; }
  
              }
              //saveInThisRow = 0;
              // ctrl-i  = auto format
  
              csvReader.close();
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>The path is as far as I can tell correct (its in the src), maybe there is is something wrong with the csv instead?
  It worked nicely in Eclipse, but now in Intellij its broken... whats going on here?</p>
  
  <p>This is the stack trace;</p>
  
  <pre><code>java.io.FileNotFoundException: src\example.csv (The system cannot find the path specified)
      at java.io.FileInputStream.open0(Native Method)
      at java.io.FileInputStream.open(FileInputStream.java:195)
      at java.io.FileInputStream.&lt;init&gt;(FileInputStream.java:138)
      at java.io.FileInputStream.&lt;init&gt;(FileInputStream.java:93)
      at java.io.FileReader.&lt;init&gt;(FileReader.java:58)
      at net.klingt.example.LoadCsv.readCsv(LoadCsv.java:61)
      at net.klingt.example.ProcessingExample.draw(ProcessingExample.java:252)
      at processing.core.PApplet.handleDraw(PApplet.java:2386)
      at processing.core.PGraphicsJava2D.requestDraw(PGraphicsJava2D.java:240)
      at processing.core.PApplet.run(PApplet.java:2256)
      at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Now I have this;</p>
  
  <pre><code> public void readCsv(   ) throws IOException, URISyntaxException { // throws IOException  ---  String[] args
          System.out.println(".............");
          System.out.println(System.getProperty("user.dir"));
  
          val = 20; // testing purposes
          String [][] tab  = new String [100][400];
          int saveInThisRow = 0;
  
          File file = new File(getClass().getResource("src/resources/GEMSTONES05.csv").toURI());
          String csvFilename = "src/resources/GEMSTONES05.csv";
  
          CSVReader csvReader = new CSVReader(new FileReader(csvFilename));
          String[] row = null;
          String total = "";
          while((row = csvReader.readNext()) != null) {
  
              for( int i = 0 ; i &lt; 20 ; i++ ){  // no higher than num of columns to be found or error
                  String saveAway = row[i];
                  parent.println("CVS read  " + saveAway);
                  //tabl[saveInThisRow][i] = row[i];
                  tabl[saveInThisRow][i] = saveAway.replace('_', ' ');
              }
              saveInThisRow++;
              if(saveInThisRow == 20) { saveInThisRow = 0; break; }
  
          }
  
          csvReader.close();
  
          for( int i = 0 ; i &lt; 300 ; i++){
  
          }
  
      }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I am a bit lost how &amp; where to use "file", here is the stack trace</p>
  
  <pre><code>C:\Program Files (x86)\JetBrains\IntelliJ IDEA 14.0.3\jre\jre\bin
  Exception in thread "Animation Thread" java.lang.NullPointerException
      at net.klingt.example.LoadCsv.readCsv(LoadCsv.java:41)
      at net.klingt.example.ProcessingExample.draw(ProcessingExample.java:253)
      at processing.core.PApplet.handleDraw(PApplet.java:2386)
      at processing.core.PGraphicsJava2D.requestDraw(PGraphicsJava2D.java:240)
      at processing.core.PApplet.run(PApplet.java:2256)
      at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I no longer have the file not found error, instead now its an null pointer exception....</p>