How to Read a Flat File Data

[khad M]

Hi Ranchers good Morning.
This is my fisrt Query in this forum.
I want to read a flat file data using JAVA.
How to do this.
I heard that StringTokeinger to be used.What exactly it is?
i.e How to read and Write on to flat file using JAVA I/O strems.
Thanks in advance.

Regards
Khad M
SCJP2.0

[Roy Sin]

well, basically it depends what data does ur flat file consists of...
if it is just normal strings n endline char at the end...
ie. a
b
c

u could just use bufferedreader
if it is a whole string that is seperated by deliminators... and u wish to get each character out.. then u use stringtokenizer
ie a,b,c,d,e
bufferedreader code

FileReader inputFile = new FileReader(fileRead);
BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(inputFile);
while ((line = br.readLine()) != null)
{
----put ur code inside here----
}

stringtokenizer code

  
FileReader inputFile = new FileReader(fileRead);
BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(inputFile);
while ((line = br.readLine()) != null)
{
   StringTokenizer in = new StringTokenizer(line,",");
   while (in.hasMoreTokens())
   {
        String lineRead = in.nextToken();
        ---put code inside here---
   }
}

do a search on these topics.. there are lots of examples about bufferedreader and stringtokenizer.. also .. read up on the API Index..