Hello I'm new to coding and in my class, we have jumped straight into coding with zero experience and or lessons, this is my first assignment and i am completely lost.

Write a program that reads text from a file. Create a 2-dimensional character array that is

6 * 7. Store the characters read in your array in row major order (fill row 0 first, then row

1, etc.). Fill any unused spaces in the 2-D array with the '*' character. If you have more

characters than space, ignore the excess characters.

Extract the characters from your array in column-major order (pull from column 0 first,

then column 1, etc.). Build a new string as you extract the characters. Display the new

string.

Here is an example for the input string

"It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen."

Output string: IatdAat apn bcyrdwro i aililtsgdn, h h e

import java. io. BufferedReader;

import java. io. FileReader;

import java. io. IOException;

public class CharTwoDArray {

public static void main (String[] args) {

String file = "word. txt";

final int MAX_CHARS = 1000;

int count = 0;

char array[] = new char[MAX_CHARS];

char array2D[][] = new char[6][7];

try {

int t;

FileReader fr = new FileReader (file);

BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader (fr);

while ((t = br. read ()) ! = - 1) {

if ((char) t = = '/n') continue;

array[count++] = (char) t;

}

} catch (IOException e) {

System. out. println ("Error in opening file!");

System. exit (0);

}

int t = 0;

for (int x = 0; x < 6; x++) {

for (int y = 0; y < 7; y++) {

/ / if no char then adding *

if (t > = count) {

array2D[x][y] = '*';

} else

array2D[x][y] = array[t++];

}

}

for (int i = 0; i < 6; i++) {

for (int j = 0; j < 7; j++) {

System. out. print (array2D[i][j]);

}

System. out. println ();

}

}

}

Explanation:

Use buffer reader for reading file. Add char to 1D array. Add 1D array to 2D array. Display the 2D array.