Question

I'm having trouble and, although I'm pretty good with java, for some reason I'm getting a weird looping bug that I can't seem to squash

Answer 1

Here is the method that has the issue
```
private ArrayList getLocations(String[] names) {
String str;
String[] fixedNames = removeCopies(names);
int count = 0;
int lineNumber = 1;

boolean done = false;
ArrayList instances = new ArrayList();
for (String name : names) {
try {
instances.add(name);
Scanner scan = new Scanner(new File(
"C://Users//Owner//Desktop/test.txt"));

while (scan.hasNextLine()) {
String line = scan.nextLine();
Pattern p = Pattern.compile(name);
Matcher m = p.matcher(line);

while (m.find()) {

count++;

}
if (count >= 1) {

for (int j = 0; j < count; count--) {
instances.add(lineNumber);
}
count = 0;
} else {
count = 0;
instances.add(name);
}
lineNumber++;

}
} catch (FileNotFoundException ex) {
Logger.getLogger(HashTable.class.getName()).log(Level.SEVERE, null, ex);
}
} for (Object instance : instances) {
System.out.println(instance);
}
return instances;
}
```

Answer 2

When I run this, I get this result (times like....... 1000)

```
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Answer 3

That's not the whole arraylist. Just a small chunk of it. It's only supposed to have one instance of each name in it.