I'm new to java and I'm having a little problem with my code. There's no error and such, it just keeps saying process finished but no output was displayed. The filename is correct as I've checked.
import java.nio.file.;
import java.io.;
public class GuessingGame {
public GuessingGame() {
String filename = "C:\\Users\\angela\\Documents\\words.txt";
Path path = Paths.get(filename.toString());
try {
InputStream input = Files.newInputStream(path);
BufferedReader read = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(input));
String word = null;
while((word = read.readLine()) !=null) {
System.out.println(word);
}
}
catch(IOException ex) {
}
}
public static void main (String[] args) {
new GuessingGame();
}
}
You are ignoring the exception and you don't close the file. Save some typing by using the built-in input.transferTo() for copying the file to System.out, and pass on the exception for the caller to handle by adding throws IOException to constructor and main.
Replace your try-catch block with this try-with-resources, which handles closing the file after use:
try (InputStream input = Files.newInputStream(path)) {
input.transferTo(System.out) ;
}
You managed to call the intended class, but you also needed to specify the specific function which you have declared in the function. Like so:
public static void main (String[] args) { GuessingGame gg = new GuessingGame; gg.GuessingGame(); }
I have this code set up and I am trying to write a program that looks through a file and finds a specific hidden secret word then replaces the word with "found!" then re-prints the text file in the console. I know how to use reader and writer but I am unsure how i can use them in unison to do this. Code is as follows:
Reader Class:
package Main;
import java.io.*;
public class Read {
private static String line;
FileReader in;
File file;
public Read() {
line = "";
}
public void readFile() throws IOException {
file = new File("C:examplePathName\\ReadWriteExp.txt");
in = new FileReader(file);
BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(in);
while((line = br.readLine()) != null) {
System.out.println(line);
}
in.close();
}
public String getLine() {
return line;
}
public File getFile() {
return file;
}
}
Writer(change) class:
package Main;
import java.io.FileWriter;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.Writer;
public class Change {
public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException{
Read r = new Read();
String line = r.getLine();
FileWriter fw = new FileWriter(r.getFile());
while(line != null) {
if(line.equals("example")) {
fw.write("found!");
}
System.out.println(line);
}
}
}
Am i on the right path or should i combine both of these into one class. Also is this the proper way of writing to a specific line in a text file?
If the file is a reasonable size, you can read it into memory, change what you need and write it back out again:
public static void replaceOccurrences(String match, String replacement, Path path) throws IOException {
Files.write(path, Files.lines(path).map(l -> {
if(l.contains(match)) {
return l.replace(match, replacement);
} else {
return l;
}
}).collect(Collectors.toList()));
}
Alternatively, if you know that the search term occurs only once and you just need to find the position of the occurrence, use the following:
try(BufferedReader reader = Files.newBufferedReader(path)) {
int lineIndex = 0;
String line;
while(!(line = reader.readLine()).contains(match)) {
lineIndex++;
}
System.out.println(lineIndex); // line which contains match, 0-indexed
System.out.println(line.indexOf(match)); // starting position of match in line, 0-indexed
}
If all you have to do is print the converted text to system out (rather than writing it out to a file), the second class isn't really needed. You can accomplish what you need in the readFile() method of the Read class:
public void readFile() throws IOException {
file = new File("C:examplePathName\\ReadWriteExp.txt");
in = new FileReader(file);
BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(in);
while((line = br.readLine()) != null) {
System.out.println(line.replaceAll("example", "found!"));
}
in.close();
}
There are a lot of other tweaks you could make, but that's the core of the functionality you specified in your question.
I am trying to write code for a word guessing game, and it works well when I use bufferedreader and inputstream combined. But when I try it using scanner, it cannot find the file, even though in both instances the file is in the same folder. It is in a folder called res under the src folder in my project folder(I am coding in eclipse).
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Scanner;
import java.io.File;
public class WordGen {
private final String filename = "/res/words.txt";
File file = new File(filename);
Scanner input = null;
private ArrayList<String> list = new ArrayList<>();
public WordGen() {
try {
input = new Scanner(file);
while (input.hasNextLine()) {
String w = input.nextLine();
list.add(w);
}
} catch (Exception ex) {
System.out.println("File not found.");
}
}
public String getword() {
if (list.isEmpty()) {
return "NOTHING";
}
return list.get((int) (Math.random() * list.size()));
}
}
public class test {
public static void main(String[] args) {
WordGen wordgen = new WordGen();
System.out.println(wordgen.getword());
}
}
I tried searching for this problem but couldn't find it here. I am guessing it's a very small error which I cannot figure out. Thanks and regards.
EDIT: Here's the other code that worked(Everything else same as before):
public WordGenerator()
{
try(InputStream input = getClass().getResourceAsStream(fileName);
BufferedReader bfreader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(input)))
{
String line = "";
while ((line = bfreader.readLine()) != null)
words.add(line);
}
catch (Exception e)
{
System.out.println("Couldn't find file");
}
}
Scanner is trying to load a file - and you're providing an absolute filename, /res/words.txt.
In order to create an InputStream, you're loading a resource, giving it an absolute resource name, even though you've called the variable fileName:
getClass().getResourceAsStream(fileName)
That works because it can load a resource called /res/words.txt from the classpath, but it's not loading a file with a filename of /res/words.txt.
You could use a filename of res/words.txt, if you run the code from the src directory... or you could just stick to using getResourceAsStream, which is probably a better idea as it doesn't rely on your working directory, and will continue to work even if your code and resources are packaged up into a jar file.
If you really want to use Scanner, you could always use new Scanner(input) - there's a Scanner constructor accepting an InputStream.
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When I run some code I have compiled (with no errors) I receive the following error:
Error: Could not find or load main class ReadFile
The code I am trying to run is the file ReadFile.java:
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.FileReader;
import java.io.BufferedReader;
public class ReadFile {
public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
String file_name = "hello.txt";
try {
ReadFile file = new ReadFile(file_name);
String[] aryLines = file.OpenFile();
int i;
for (i=0; i<aryLines.length; i++) {
System.out.println(aryLines[i]);
}
}
catch (IOException e) {
System.out.println(e.getMessage() );
}
}
private String path;
public ReadFile(String file_path) {
path = file_path;
}
public String[] OpenFile() throws IOException {
FileReader fr = new FileReader(path);
BufferedReader textReader = new BufferedReader(fr);
int numberOfLines = readLines();
String[] textData = new String[numberOfLines];
int i;
for (i=0;i<numberOfLines;i++) {
textData[i] = textReader.readLine();
}
textReader.close();
return textData;
}
int readLines() throws IOException {
FileReader file_to_read = new FileReader(path);
BufferedReader bf = new BufferedReader(file_to_read);
String aLine;
int numberOfLines = 0;
while (( aLine = bf.readLine()) != null) {
numberOfLines++;
}
bf.close();
return numberOfLines;
}
}
and hello.txt is as follows:
Hello World
Hello Solar System
Hello Galaxy
I am a beginner and am not sure why I am returned with this error, can anyone help?
First of all, change directories to the location of your source file..
Use the Java Compiler to compile the source file to a .class file
javac ReadFile.java
Now use Java to run the resulting .class file...
java ReadFile
(Note, I didn't have a file to read, but that wasn't my goal)
**** WARNING ****
This will only work if the ReadFile.java file does not start with a package declaration. If it does, it will change the way that the class has to be run!!
Java is not my main programming language so I might be asking the obvious.
But is there a simple file-handling library in Java, like in python?
For example I just want to say:
File f = Open('file.txt', 'w')
for(String line:f){
//do something with the line from file
}
Thanks!
UPDATE: Well, the stackoverflow auto-accepted a weird answer. It has to do with bounty that I placed - so if you want to see other answers, just scroll down!
I was thinking something more along the lines of:
File f = File.open("C:/Users/File.txt");
for(String s : f){
System.out.println(s);
}
Here is my source code for it:
import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.BufferedWriter;
import java.io.FileReader;
import java.io.FileWriter;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.Writer;
import java.util.Iterator;
public abstract class File implements Iterable<String>{
public final static String READ = "r";
public final static String WRITE = "w";
public static File open(String filepath) throws IOException{
return open(filepath, READ);
}
public static File open(String filepath, String mode) throws IOException{
if(mode == READ){
return new ReadableFile(filepath);
}else if(mode == WRITE){
return new WritableFile(filepath);
}
throw new IllegalArgumentException("Invalid File Write mode '" + mode + "'");
}
//common methods
public abstract void close() throws IOException;
// writer specific
public abstract void write(String s) throws IOException;
}
class WritableFile extends File{
String filepath;
Writer writer;
public WritableFile(String filepath){
this.filepath = filepath;
}
private Writer writer() throws IOException{
if(this.writer == null){
writer = new BufferedWriter(new FileWriter(this.filepath));
}
return writer;
}
public void write(String chars) throws IOException{
writer().write(chars);
}
public void close() throws IOException{
writer().close();
}
#Override
public Iterator<String> iterator() {
return null;
}
}
class ReadableFile extends File implements Iterator<String>{
private BufferedReader reader;
private String line;
private String read_ahead;
public ReadableFile(String filepath) throws IOException{
this.reader = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(filepath));
this.read_ahead = this.reader.readLine();
}
private Reader reader() throws IOException{
if(reader == null){
reader = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(filepath));
}
return reader;
}
#Override
public Iterator<String> iterator() {
return this;
}
#Override
public void close() throws IOException {
reader().close();
}
#Override
public void write(String s) throws IOException {
throw new IOException("Cannot write to a read-only file.");
}
#Override
public boolean hasNext() {
return this.read_ahead != null;
}
#Override
public String next() {
if(read_ahead == null)
line = null;
else
line = new String(this.read_ahead);
try {
read_ahead = this.reader.readLine();
} catch (IOException e) {
read_ahead = null;
reader.close()
}
return line;
}
#Override
public void remove() {
// do nothing
}
}
and here is the unit-test for it:
import java.io.IOException;
import org.junit.Test;
public class FileTest {
#Test
public void testFile(){
File f;
try {
f = File.open("File.java");
for(String s : f){
System.out.println(s);
}
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
#Test
public void testReadAndWriteFile(){
File from;
File to;
try {
from = File.open("File.java");
to = File.open("Out.txt", "w");
for(String s : from){
to.write(s + System.getProperty("line.separator"));
}
to.close();
} catch (IOException e1) {
e1.printStackTrace();
}
}
}
Reading a file line by line in Java:
BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new FileReader("myfile.txt"));
String line;
while ((line = in.readLine()) != null) {
// Do something with this line
System.out.println(line);
}
in.close();
Most of the classes for I/O are in the package java.io. See the API documentation for that package. Have a look at Sun's Java I/O tutorial for more detailed information.
addition: The example above will use the default character encoding of your system to read the text file. If you want to explicitly specify the character encoding, for example UTF-8, change the first line to this:
BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(
new InputStreamReader(new FileInputStream("myfile.txt"), "UTF-8"));
If you already have dependencies to Apache commons lang and commons io this could be an alternative:
String[] lines = StringUtils.split(FileUtils.readFileToString(new File("myfile.txt")), '\n');
for(String line: lines){
//do something with the line from file
}
(I would prefer Jesper's answer)
If you want to iterate through a file by strings, a class you might find useful is the Scanner class.
import java.io.*;
import java.util.Scanner;
public class ScanXan {
public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
Scanner s = null;
try {
s = new Scanner(new BufferedReader(new FileReader("myFile.txt")));
while (s.hasNextLine()) {
System.out.println(s.nextLine());
}
} finally {
if (s != null) {
s.close();
}
}
}
}
The API is pretty useful: http://java.sun.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/util/Scanner.html
You can also parse the file using regular expressions.
I never get tired of pimping Google's guava-libraries, which takes a lot of the pain out of... well, most things in Java.
How about:
for (String line : Files.readLines(new File("file.txt"), Charsets.UTF_8)) {
// Do something
}
In the case where you have a large file, and want a line-by-line callback (rather than reading the whole thing into memory) you can use a LineProcessor, which adds a bit of boilerplate (due to the lack of closures... sigh) but still shields you from dealing with the reading itself, and all associated Exceptions:
int matching = Files.readLines(new File("file.txt"), Charsets.UTF_8, new LineProcessor<Integer>(){
int count;
Integer getResult() {return count;}
boolean processLine(String line) {
if (line.equals("foo")
count++;
return true;
}
});
If you don't actually want a result back out of the processor, and you never abort early (the reason for the boolean return from processLine) you could then do something like:
class SimpleLineCallback extends LineProcessor<Void> {
Void getResult{ return null; }
boolean processLine(String line) {
doProcess(line);
return true;
}
abstract void doProcess(String line);
}
and then your code might be:
Files.readLines(new File("file.txt"), Charsets.UTF_8, new SimpleLineProcessor(){
void doProcess(String line) {
if (line.equals("foo");
throw new FooException("File shouldn't contain 'foo'!");
}
});
which is correspondingly cleaner.
public static void main(String[] args) throws FileNotFoundException {
Scanner scanner = new Scanner(new File("scan.txt"));
try {
while (scanner.hasNextLine()) {
System.out.println(scanner.nextLine());
}
} finally {
scanner.close();
}
}
Some caveats:
That uses the default system encoding, but you should specify the file encoding
Scanner swallows I/O exceptions, so you may want to check ioException() at the end for proper error handling
Simple example using Files.readLines() from guava-io with a LineProcessor callback:
import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;
import com.google.common.base.Charsets;
import com.google.common.io.Files;
import com.google.common.io.LineProcessor;
public class GuavaIoDemo {
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
int result = Files.readLines(new File("/home/pascal/.vimrc"), //
Charsets.UTF_8, //
new LineProcessor<Integer>() {
int counter;
public Integer getResult() {
return counter;
}
public boolean processLine(String line) throws IOException {
counter++;
System.out.println(line);
return true;
}
});
}
}
You could use jython which lets you run Python syntax in Java.
Nice example here: Line by line iteration
Try looking at groovy!
Its a superset of Java that runs in hte JVM. Most valid Java code is also valid Groovy so you have access any of the million java APIs directly.
In addition it has many of the higher level contructs familiar to Pythonists, plus
a number of extensions to take the pain out of Maps, Lists, sql, xml and you guessed it -- file IO.