I/O Question

[Rob Levo]

I need example code of reading the contents of a file into a StringBuffer object.
Thanks to anyone who can provide that example for me.

[Corey McGlone]

This should do the trick. I even added a line to spit the contents back out to the console so that you could see what was in the StringBuffer.

import java.io.FileReader;
import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.IOException;
 
public class MyReader
{
   public static void main(String[] args)
   {
      StringBuffer buff = new StringBuffer();
 
      try
      {
         BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new FileReader("myFile.txt"));
     
         String readLine = reader.readLine();
         while ( readLine != null )
         {
            buff.append(readLine + System.getProperty("line.separator"));
            readLine = reader.readLine();
         }
 
         System.out.println(buff.toString());
      }
      catch (IOException e)
      {
         System.out.println("Exception caught: " + e);
      }
   }
}

I hope that helps,
Corey
[ April 18, 2002: Message edited by: Corey McGlone ]

[Rob Levo]

Thanks Corey, exactly what I needed!!