Reading db.db file

[Pallavi Mahajan]

HI,
I'm trying to read db.db file.
I have writtena small program for that. I jsut want to know can I add few statements to the provided class functions for producing output or not? Because I'm adding println statements in toString() function. Is it valid to do that?
Thank you,
Pallavi

[Andrew Monkhouse]

Hi Pallavi,
You really dont want to have System.out.println statements in a toString method. This is a standard method in all objects that other programmers expect to have work in a standard way.
Having said that - you can put debugging code anywhere you like before you hand in the assignment - just make sure you get rid of it before you hand it in. If you do something like:
System.out.println("DEBUG ...");
then you can do a search for the DEBUG string before you do your final compile, and get rid of anything like that.
Regards, Andrew

[Pallavi Mahajan]

Hi Andrew,
Thank you for the comments. I removed all the printf statement from my code ,also I can see the db.db contents on console. I am little confused here, do I need to store this output in data Stucture or text file or anything?
I have no idea how to proceed now?
Pallavi