New to Java

Hey guys

I've been searching the internet and the forums on how to read some text from notepad that i've stored, but i've come up short. Does anyone know how i can do this. I'm currently using the File...FileOutputStream...PrintWriter combonation to tell it where to output the file, then what to make the file and what to put in it. Anyone have any ideas of how i can implement some methods to open the notepad file, read it (i printed in the notepad file with println so it would go read one line then the next), define the variables as the ones in the notepad files, and then close the file? if you lead me to a tutorial then i'll read up on it but I'm just stuck so ya.

hwrd

PS If i can do all that without opening another window then that would be great.