Question

Before you begin your program: Create a text file in your project folder with 20 "quirky sayings"/fortunes (the only requirement is that they be appropriate for display in class), In your program you will Create a list by reading those 20 fortunes from your file Ask the user how many fortunes he/she wants to see. store the value in a variable Inside of a loop (loop as many times as the user asked) select a random answer from your list of fortunes wait for the user to press the enter key (the easy way is to use the Scanner's nextLine method) Note that it is quite possible that you will see some fortunes more than once while not seeing some at all.

Answer 1

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Program

import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.FileReader;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.Scanner;

public class Test {
   public static void main(String[] args)throws IOException {
       Scanner sc = new Scanner(System.in);//for taking console input
      
       //for reading file data
       BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new FileReader("data.txt"));
       String line;
       int count=0;
       String[] fortunes = new String[20];
       //reading and storing file data to fortunes[]
       while ((line = br.readLine()) != null) {
           fortunes[count] = line;
           count++;
       }
      
       System.out.print("Enter the number of fortunes: ");
       int size = sc.nextInt(); sc.nextLine();//taking user input and flushing scanner object
       int random;
       System.out.println("*********Your Fortunes*********");
       for(int i=0; i<size; i++) {
           random = (int)(Math.random()*20);//generating random value
           System.out.println(fortunes[random]);//showing the fortunes
           sc.nextLine();//waiting for user to press enter
       }
       //closing the resources
       sc.close();
       br.close();
   }
}

data.txt

Output