Writing to a file

[Jojo Wilson]

What is an example of a way to create a file and write some text to it?

[Nick George]

The moderators don't usually approve of just supplying code, but this is an instance where it's just easer if i give you this... This will right a string "s" to a file with the name (again a string) "filename". if no such file exists, it will create one.

 
try {
   PrintWriter pw = new PrintWriter(new FileOutputStream(filepath));
   pw.println(s);
   pw.close();
} catch(IOException e) {
   System.out.println(e.getMessage());
} 

the following static method will then read the filename String f and return the contents as a String, which you can partition into the information you need.

 
private static String readString(String f){
   String s="";
   try{
      FileInputStream in=new FileInputStream(f);
      while(in.available()>0)
         s+=(char)in.read();
   }catch(Exception e){}
   return s;
}

Don't tell anyone i gave you a hand-out

[Jojo Wilson]

I got it using ObjectOutputStream instead of PrintWriter. I appreciate your help.