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Code to Modify the contents of a file
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Moni Marva
Greenhorn
Joined: Jan 24, 2005
Posts: 23
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Hi,
The contents of the .log file are as mentioned below,
12/02/2005,12:30:06:09,12/02/2005,12:40:09:09,failure,ind-mhp1dxp0323
In this I want to change the status from say "failure" to "sucess" for a particular line.
I want the solution to do this using File Io , Random Access file.
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sandip mense
Greenhorn
Joined: Oct 14, 2003
Posts: 28
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Moni,
These are the steps that you need to follow,
Load the file from the file system.
Open the file in read/write mode.
Read the line into a StringBuffer.
Get the length of the string that you want to replace
Replace the String using the StringBuffer replace(startindex, endindex, Stringtoreplace) method
Sandip
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Stan James
(instanceof Sidekick)
Ranch Hand
Joined: Jan 29, 2003
Posts: 8791
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With RandomAccess you can locate a string in a file and overwrite it with something else of exactly the same length. Since "failure" and "success" both have 7 letters you could do it in place. The "locate" part might be a little challenging, though, since there's no API to read one line at a time from RandomAccess.
With ordinary file io you can read the input one line at a time, examine each line, make the change when you find the target, and write a new file one line at a time. I like this trick to be very safe when rewriting a file:
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