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Working With Files in Java

This document discusses reading from and writing to text files in Java using BufferedReader and PrintWriter. BufferedReader is used to read lines of text from a file or console into a String. PrintWriter writes strings to an output file. A while loop can be used to read all lines of a file by continuously calling readLine() until it returns null. The example program UseFile reads lines from an input file infile.txt, writes them to the console and an output file outfile.txt, and closes both files.

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Working With Files in Java

This document discusses reading from and writing to text files in Java using BufferedReader and PrintWriter. BufferedReader is used to read lines of text from a file or console into a String. PrintWriter writes strings to an output file. A while loop can be used to read all lines of a file by continuously calling readLine() until it returns null. The example program UseFile reads lines from an input file infile.txt, writes them to the console and an output file outfile.txt, and closes both files.

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Working with text files

in Java
BufferedReader
and
PrintWriter
Reading text from a file
BufferedReader inFile;
String lineOfText;

// open the file


inFile = new BufferedReader(
new FileReader("infile.txt"));
// read the file
lineOfText = inFile.readLine();
…
// close the file
inFile.close();
Writing text to a file
PrintWriter outFile;
String name = "Bob";
// open the file
outFile = new PrintWriter(
new FileWriter("outfile.txt"));
// write some lines to the file
outFile.print("Hello, ");
outFile.println(name);

// close the file


outFile.close();
Reading all lines of a file
„ readLine() returns null whenever
„ an attempt is made to read an empty file
„ previous calls to readLine() have read all the lines of
the file, and we have reached the end of the file.
„ We can use this fact in a while loop to read all
the lines of a file:

while ((lineOfText = inFile.readLine()) != null)


{
/* process lineOfText */
}
infile.txt
This is the first line.
This is the second line.
This is the third line.
Example: UseFile.java
import java.io.*; // File classes
public class UseFile
{
public static void main(String[] args)
throws IOException
{
PrintWriter outFile; // Output data file
BufferedReader inFile; // Input data file
String lineOfText; // String to hold
// data lines
UseFile.java

// Prepare input and output files


inFile = new BufferedReader(
new FileReader("infile.txt"));
outFile = new PrintWriter(
new FileWriter("outfile.txt"));
// Read lines from infile.dat
while ((lineOfText = inFile.readLine()) != null)
{
// write line to console
System.out.println(lineOfText);
// write line of outFile
outFile.println(lineOfText);
}
UseFile.java
intFile.close(); // finished reading
outFile.close(); // Finished writing
}
}
Output of UseFile
outfile.txt

This is the third line.


This is the second line.
This is the first line.
Reading from the console
„ Reading from the console is just like
reading from a text file.
„ The difference is in how the
BufferedReader object is created.
„ To create a BufferedReader for reading
from the console (keyboard), do this:
BufferedReader inData =
new BufferedReader(
new InputStreamReader(System.in));
Reading from the console
BufferedReader inData =
new BufferedReader(
new InputStreamReader(System.in));
String name, lineOfText;
int age;
System.out.print("Enter your name: ");
name = inData.readLine();
System.out.print("Enter your age: ");
lineOfText = inData.readLine();
age = Integer.parseInt(lineOfText.trim());

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