I am using below piece of code to parse text data by using java.util.Scanner class- Scanner scannner = new Scanner(upLoadFile.getInputStream()); while(scannner.hasNextLine()){ licenseKey.append(scannner.nextLine()); } scannner.close(); But i am getting following exception on invoking hasNextLine API on Scanner object - java.lang.NullPointerException at java.util.regex.Matcher.toMatchResult(Matcher.java:606) at java.util.Scanner.myCoreNext(Scanner.java:1706) at java.util.Scanner.myPrepareForNext(Scanner.java:2182) at java.util.Scanner.myNextLine(Scanner.java:2092) at java.util.Scanner.hasNextLine(Scanner.java:781) at com.ipolicynet.dm.system.beans.DmLicenseBaseInsertFormBean.validate(DmLicenseBaseInsertFormBean.java:49) at org.apache.struts.action.RequestProcessor.processValidate(RequestProcessor.java:921) at org.apache.struts.action.RequestProcessor.process(RequestProcessor.java:206) at org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet.process(ActionServlet.java:1164) at org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet.doGet(ActionServlet.java:397) at com.ipolicynet.dm.common.framework.DmActionServlet.doGet(DmActionServlet.java:132) at com.ipolicynet.dm.common.framework.DmActionServlet.doPost(DmActionServlet.java:147) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:727) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:820) at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHolder.handle(ServletHolder.java:487) at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler.handle(ServletHandler.java:362) at org.mortbay.jetty.security.SecurityHandler.handle(SecurityHandler.java:216) at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.SessionHandler.handle(SessionHandler.java:181) at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.ContextHandler.handle(ContextHandler.java:726) at org.mortbay.jetty.webapp.WebAppContext.handle(WebAppContext.java:405) at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.ContextHandlerCollection.handle(ContextHandlerCollection.java:206) at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.HandlerCollection.handle(HandlerCollection.java:114) at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.HandlerWrapper.handle(HandlerWrapper.java:152) at org.mortbay.jetty.Server.handle(Server.java:324) at org.mortbay.jetty.HttpConnection.handleRequest(HttpConnection.java:505) at org.mortbay.jetty.HttpConnection$RequestHandler.content(HttpConnection.java:842) at org.mortbay.jetty.HttpParser.parseNext(HttpParser.java:648) at org.mortbay.jetty.HttpParser.parseAvailable(HttpParser.java:205) at org.mortbay.jetty.HttpConnection.handle(HttpConnection.java:380) at org.mortbay.io.nio.SelectChannelEndPoint.run(SelectChannelEndPoint.java:395) at org.mortbay.thread.BoundedThreadPool$PoolThread.run(BoundedThreadPool.java:450) Please help me in resolving above issue. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/NullPointerException-on-using-java.util.Scanner-tp24091796p24091796.html Sent from the Gnu - Classpath - General mailing list archive at Nabble.com.