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Wes
Something more useful,
October 22, 2008 at 9:47 PM
October 22, 2008 at 9:47 PM
I prefer to have a file that I can write to like a log file such as appending or prepending text to the file. Here is an example that may be useful to someone.
import java.io.FileWriter;
import java.io.FileReader;
import java.io.BufferedWriter;
import java.io.BufferedReader;
class File {
public static void writeln(String content, char type) {
File.write(content+"\n", type);
}
public static void write(String content, char type) {
try {
String outfile = "logs/out.txt";
System.out.println("Writing to file: "+outfile);
if(type == 'a' || type == 'p') { // needs input from the file first
String in = File.read(outfile);
if(type == 'a') {
System.out.println(" Prepending Content: "+content);
content = in+content;
} else if (type == 'p') { // prepend
System.out.println(" Prepending Content: "+content);
content = content+in;
}
}
// Create file
BufferedWriter out = new BufferedWriter(new FileWriter(outfile));
System.out.println("Writing Content: "+content);
// if !append or prepend then the file is overwritten. otherwise it contains the text in front of it or behind it for what was added.
out.write(content);
// Close the output stream
out.close();
} catch (Exception e) { // Catch exception if any
System.err.println("Error: "+e.getMessage());
System.exit(-1);
}
}
public static String read(String infile) {
try {
String content = new String();
BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(infile));
String read = in.readLine();
while(read != null) {
if(read.length()>0 && read.charAt(read.length()-1) != '\n') {
read += "\n";
}
content += read;
read = in.readLine();
}
in.close();
System.out.println("Read Content: "+content);
return content;
} catch (Exception e) { // Catch exception if any
System.err.println("Error: "+e.getMessage());
System.exit(-1);
}
return new String();
}
}
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import java.io.FileWriter;
import java.io.FileReader;
import java.io.BufferedWriter;
import java.io.BufferedReader;
class File {
public static void writeln(String content, char type) {
File.write(content+"\n", type);
}
public static void write(String content, char type) {
try {
String outfile = "logs/out.txt";
System.out.println("Writing to file: "+outfile);
if(type == 'a' || type == 'p') { // needs input from the file first
String in = File.read(outfile);
if(type == 'a') {
System.out.println(" Prepending Content: "+content);
content = in+content;
} else if (type == 'p') { // prepend
System.out.println(" Prepending Content: "+content);
content = content+in;
}
}
// Create file
BufferedWriter out = new BufferedWriter(new FileWriter(outfile));
System.out.println("Writing Content: "+content);
// if !append or prepend then the file is overwritten. otherwise it contains the text in front of it or behind it for what was added.
out.write(content);
// Close the output stream
out.close();
} catch (Exception e) { // Catch exception if any
System.err.println("Error: "+e.getMessage());
System.exit(-1);
}
}
public static String read(String infile) {
try {
String content = new String();
BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(infile));
String read = in.readLine();
while(read != null) {
if(read.length()>0 && read.charAt(read.length()-1) != '\n') {
read += "\n";
}
content += read;
read = in.readLine();
}
in.close();
System.out.println("Read Content: "+content);
return content;
} catch (Exception e) { // Catch exception if any
System.err.println("Error: "+e.getMessage());
System.exit(-1);
}
return new String();
}
}
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