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File Access: Reading: Savitch, Chapter 9

This document discusses file accessing in Java. It defines a file as a sequence of data elements stored in secondary storage like hard disks. Text files contain character data while binary files contain non-text data. The document then explains that files are used to save information and provides examples of accessing input/output files when running Java programs. It outlines the key steps to read from and write to text files using classes in java.io, including using FileReader/FileWriter to read/write characters one by one and BufferedReader/PrintWriter to read/write entire lines. The document concludes with exercises to modify the examples.

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File Access: Reading: Savitch, Chapter 9

This document discusses file accessing in Java. It defines a file as a sequence of data elements stored in secondary storage like hard disks. Text files contain character data while binary files contain non-text data. The document then explains that files are used to save information and provides examples of accessing input/output files when running Java programs. It outlines the key steps to read from and write to text files using classes in java.io, including using FileReader/FileWriter to read/write characters one by one and BufferedReader/PrintWriter to read/write entire lines. The document concludes with exercises to modify the examples.

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File Access
Reading: Savitch, Chapter 9
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Objectives
To learn textfile accessing

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What is a file?
A file is a sequence of data elements
residing in a secondary storage (eg. hard
disks, cds, tapes etc).
If the data elements are characters, the file is a
text file.
If the data elements are binary, the file is a
binary file.
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Example
HelloWorld.java, HelloWorld.class and
winword.exe

HelloWorld.java -- a text file.
Winword.exe -- a binary file.
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Why use files?
To save information.


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Example
When running a JAVA program, we can
save the output as a file, so that we can
access the output later.We can also save the
input as a file, so that we dont have to key
in the input each time when we run the
program.

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File Accessing
File accessing refers to
- reading data from a file (file reading), or
- writing data to a file (file writing).

Classes defined in java.io can be used to
handle file accessing.
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Text file accessing
Text file accessing involves
the following steps

(1) Define a FileReader/FileWriter object for
reading/writing

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Example

FileReader in = new FileReader ("source.txt");

FileWriter out = new FileWriter ("dest.txt");
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(2) Use read()/write() method to read/write a
character.

Example

char c = (char) in.read();
out.write(c);

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(3) Close the file when writing is completed.

Example

out.close();
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Note:
read() reads char by char and returns the
unicode of each character (which is an
integer). Type cast is needed to convert the
returned value to a char.

read() returns 1 when it reaches the end of
the file.
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Example

//FileReaderWriterTest.java
//This program reads from source.txt char
//by char and writes to dest.txt

import java.io.*;
public class FileReaderWriterTest
{
public static void main(String [ ] args)
throws IOException {
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int content;

// create the FileReader object
FileReader in = new FileReader ("source.txt");

// create the FileWriter object
FileWriter out = new FileWriter ("dest.txt");

content = in.read();


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while (content != -1) {
out.write((char)content);
content = in.read();
}
out.close();
}
}

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Use readLine() and println()
readLine()/println() can be used to read/write
line by line in text file accessing.

- readLine() is a method defined in the BufferedReader
class.
- println() is a method of the PrintWriter class.

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Example

//FileToUppercaseFile.java
//reads from a file line by line and echoes
//the contents to another file in uppercase

import java.io.*;
public class FileToUppercaseFile {
public static void main(String[] args)
throws IOException {
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BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader
(new FileReader (source.txt));
PrintWriter out = new PrintWriter (new
BufferedWriter(new FileWriter
(dest.txt)));

String inputLine;

inputLine = in.readLine();


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while (inputLine != null) {
out.println(inputLine.toUpperCase());
inputLine = in.readLine();
}
out.close();
}
}

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Class Exercise
(1) Modify the previous example so that the
output will not go to dest.txt, but to the
monitor.
(2) Count how many s in source.txt.
Hint: use indexOf(int ch, int fromIndex)

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