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JAVA write on specific line using BufferedWriter [duplicate]

How do I replace a line of text found within a text file?
I have a string such as:
Do the dishes0
And I want to update it with:
Do the dishes1
(and vise versa)
How do I accomplish this?
ActionListener al = new ActionListener() {
#Override
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
JCheckBox checkbox = (JCheckBox) e.getSource();
if (checkbox.isSelected()) {
System.out.println("Selected");
String s = checkbox.getText();
replaceSelected(s, "1");
} else {
System.out.println("Deselected");
String s = checkbox.getText();
replaceSelected(s, "0");
}
}
};
public static void replaceSelected(String replaceWith, String type) {
}
By the way, I want to replace ONLY the line that was read. NOT the entire file.

At the bottom, I have a general solution to replace lines in a file. But first, here is the answer to the specific question at hand. Helper function:
public static void replaceSelected(String replaceWith, String type) {
try {
// input the file content to the StringBuffer "input"
BufferedReader file = new BufferedReader(new FileReader("notes.txt"));
StringBuffer inputBuffer = new StringBuffer();
String line;
while ((line = file.readLine()) != null) {
inputBuffer.append(line);
inputBuffer.append('\n');
}
file.close();
String inputStr = inputBuffer.toString();
System.out.println(inputStr); // display the original file for debugging
// logic to replace lines in the string (could use regex here to be generic)
if (type.equals("0")) {
inputStr = inputStr.replace(replaceWith + "1", replaceWith + "0");
} else if (type.equals("1")) {
inputStr = inputStr.replace(replaceWith + "0", replaceWith + "1");
}
// display the new file for debugging
System.out.println("----------------------------------\n" + inputStr);
// write the new string with the replaced line OVER the same file
FileOutputStream fileOut = new FileOutputStream("notes.txt");
fileOut.write(inputStr.getBytes());
fileOut.close();
} catch (Exception e) {
System.out.println("Problem reading file.");
}
}
Then call it:
public static void main(String[] args) {
replaceSelected("Do the dishes", "1");
}
Original Text File Content:
Do the dishes0
Feed the dog0
Cleaned my room1
Output:
Do the dishes0
Feed the dog0
Cleaned my room1
----------------------------------
Do the dishes1
Feed the dog0
Cleaned my room1
New text file content:
Do the dishes1
Feed the dog0
Cleaned my room1
And as a note, if the text file was:
Do the dishes1
Feed the dog0
Cleaned my room1
and you used the method replaceSelected("Do the dishes", "1");,
it would just not change the file.
Since this question is pretty specific, I'll add a more general solution here for future readers (based on the title).
// read file one line at a time
// replace line as you read the file and store updated lines in StringBuffer
// overwrite the file with the new lines
public static void replaceLines() {
try {
// input the (modified) file content to the StringBuffer "input"
BufferedReader file = new BufferedReader(new FileReader("notes.txt"));
StringBuffer inputBuffer = new StringBuffer();
String line;
while ((line = file.readLine()) != null) {
line = ... // replace the line here
inputBuffer.append(line);
inputBuffer.append('\n');
}
file.close();
// write the new string with the replaced line OVER the same file
FileOutputStream fileOut = new FileOutputStream("notes.txt");
fileOut.write(inputBuffer.toString().getBytes());
fileOut.close();
} catch (Exception e) {
System.out.println("Problem reading file.");
}
}

Since Java 7 this is very easy and intuitive to do.
List<String> fileContent = new ArrayList<>(Files.readAllLines(FILE_PATH, StandardCharsets.UTF_8));
for (int i = 0; i < fileContent.size(); i++) {
if (fileContent.get(i).equals("old line")) {
fileContent.set(i, "new line");
break;
}
}
Files.write(FILE_PATH, fileContent, StandardCharsets.UTF_8);
Basically you read the whole file to a List, edit the list and finally write the list back to file.
FILE_PATH represents the Path of the file.

If replacement is of different length:
Read file until you find the string you want to replace.
Read into memory the part after text you want to replace, all of it.
Truncate the file at start of the part you want to replace.
Write replacement.
Write rest of the file from step 2.
If replacement is of same length:
Read file until you find the string you want to replace.
Set file position to start of the part you want to replace.
Write replacement, overwriting part of file.
This is the best you can get, with constraints of your question. However, at least the example in question is replacing string of same length, So the second way should work.
Also be aware: Java strings are Unicode text, while text files are bytes with some encoding. If encoding is UTF8, and your text is not Latin1 (or plain 7-bit ASCII), you have to check length of encoded byte array, not length of Java string.

I was going to answer this question. Then I saw it get marked as a duplicate of this question, after I'd written the code, so I am going to post my solution here.
Keeping in mind that you have to re-write the text file. First I read the entire file, and store it in a string. Then I store each line as a index of a string array, ex line one = array index 0. I then edit the index corresponding to the line that you wish to edit. Once this is done I concatenate all the strings in the array into a single string. Then I write the new string into the file, which writes over the old content. Don't worry about losing your old content as it has been written again with the edit. below is the code I used.
public class App {
public static void main(String[] args) {
String file = "file.txt";
String newLineContent = "Hello my name is bob";
int lineToBeEdited = 3;
ChangeLineInFile changeFile = new ChangeLineInFile();
changeFile.changeALineInATextFile(file, newLineContent, lineToBeEdited);
}
}
And the class.
import java.io.BufferedWriter;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.FileReader;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.OutputStreamWriter;
import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException;
import java.io.Writer;
public class ChangeLineInFile {
public void changeALineInATextFile(String fileName, String newLine, int lineNumber) {
String content = new String();
String editedContent = new String();
content = readFile(fileName);
editedContent = editLineInContent(content, newLine, lineNumber);
writeToFile(fileName, editedContent);
}
private static int numberOfLinesInFile(String content) {
int numberOfLines = 0;
int index = 0;
int lastIndex = 0;
lastIndex = content.length() - 1;
while (true) {
if (content.charAt(index) == '\n') {
numberOfLines++;
}
if (index == lastIndex) {
numberOfLines = numberOfLines + 1;
break;
}
index++;
}
return numberOfLines;
}
private static String[] turnFileIntoArrayOfStrings(String content, int lines) {
String[] array = new String[lines];
int index = 0;
int tempInt = 0;
int startIndext = 0;
int lastIndex = content.length() - 1;
while (true) {
if (content.charAt(index) == '\n') {
tempInt++;
String temp2 = new String();
for (int i = 0; i < index - startIndext; i++) {
temp2 += content.charAt(startIndext + i);
}
startIndext = index;
array[tempInt - 1] = temp2;
}
if (index == lastIndex) {
tempInt++;
String temp2 = new String();
for (int i = 0; i < index - startIndext + 1; i++) {
temp2 += content.charAt(startIndext + i);
}
array[tempInt - 1] = temp2;
break;
}
index++;
}
return array;
}
private static String editLineInContent(String content, String newLine, int line) {
int lineNumber = 0;
lineNumber = numberOfLinesInFile(content);
String[] lines = new String[lineNumber];
lines = turnFileIntoArrayOfStrings(content, lineNumber);
if (line != 1) {
lines[line - 1] = "\n" + newLine;
} else {
lines[line - 1] = newLine;
}
content = new String();
for (int i = 0; i < lineNumber; i++) {
content += lines[i];
}
return content;
}
private static void writeToFile(String file, String content) {
try (Writer writer = new BufferedWriter(new OutputStreamWriter(new FileOutputStream(file), "utf-8"))) {
writer.write(content);
} catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
} catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
} catch (IOException e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
private static String readFile(String filename) {
String content = null;
File file = new File(filename);
FileReader reader = null;
try {
reader = new FileReader(file);
char[] chars = new char[(int) file.length()];
reader.read(chars);
content = new String(chars);
reader.close();
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
} finally {
if (reader != null) {
try {
reader.close();
} catch (IOException e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
}
return content;
}
}

Sharing the experience with Java Util Stream
import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets;
import java.nio.file.Files;
import java.nio.file.Path;
import java.nio.file.Paths;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.stream.Collectors;
import java.util.stream.Stream;
public static void replaceLine(String filePath, String originalLineText, String newLineText) {
Path path = Paths.get(filePath);
// Get all the lines
try (Stream<String> stream = Files.lines(path, StandardCharsets.UTF_8)) {
// Do the line replace
List<String> list = stream.map(line -> line.equals(originalLineText) ? newLineText : line)
.collect(Collectors.toList());
// Write the content back
Files.write(path, list, StandardCharsets.UTF_8);
} catch (IOException e) {
LOG.error("IOException for : " + path, e);
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
Usage
replaceLine("test.txt", "Do the dishes0", "Do the dishes1");

//Read the file data
BufferedReader file = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(filepath));
StringBuffer inputBuffer = new StringBuffer();
String line;
while ((line = file.readLine()) != null) {
inputBuffer.append(line);
inputBuffer.append('\n');
}
file.close();
String inputStr = inputBuffer.toString();
// logic to replace lines in the string (could use regex here to be generic)
inputStr = inputStr.replace(str, " ");
//'str' is the string need to update in this case it is updating with nothing
// write the new string with the replaced line OVER the same file
FileOutputStream fileOut = new FileOutputStream(filer);
fileOut.write(inputStr.getBytes());
fileOut.close();

Well you would need to get a file with JFileChooser and then read through the lines of the file using a scanner and the hasNext() function
http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/javax/swing/JFileChooser.html
once you do that you can save the line into a variable and manipulate the contents.

just how to replace strings :) as i do
first arg will be filename second target string third one the string to be replaced instead of targe
public class ReplaceString{
public static void main(String[] args)throws Exception {
if(args.length<3)System.exit(0);
String targetStr = args[1];
String altStr = args[2];
java.io.File file = new java.io.File(args[0]);
java.util.Scanner scanner = new java.util.Scanner(file);
StringBuilder buffer = new StringBuilder();
while(scanner.hasNext()){
buffer.append(scanner.nextLine().replaceAll(targetStr, altStr));
if(scanner.hasNext())buffer.append("\n");
}
scanner.close();
java.io.PrintWriter printer = new java.io.PrintWriter(file);
printer.print(buffer);
printer.close();
}
}

Java read large text file with separator

I'm trying to read a large text file in the form of:
datadfqsjmqfqs+dataqfsdqjsdgjheqf+qsdfklmhvqziolkdsfnqsdfmqdsnfqsdf+qsjfqsdfmsqdjkgfqdsfqdfsqdfqdfssdqdsfqdfsqdsfqdfsqdfs+qsfddkmgqjshfdfhsqdflmlkqsdfqdqdf+
I want to read this string in the text file as one big java String. Is this possible? I know the use of the split method.
It worked to read it line by line, but what I really need is to split this long text-string at the '+' sign. Afterwards I want to store it as an array, arraylist, list,...
Can anyone help me with this? Because every information on the internet is just about reading a file line by line.
Thanks in advance!

String inpStr = "datadfqsjmqfqs+dataqfsdqjsdgjheqf+qsdfklmhvqziolkdsfnqsdfmqdsnfqsdf+qsjfqsdfmsqdjkgfqdsfqdfsqdfqdfssdqdsfqdfsqdsfqdfsqdfs+qsfddkmgqjshfdfhsqdflmlkqsdfqdqdf+";
String[] inpStrArr = inpStr.split("+");
Hope this is what you need.

You can read file using BufferedReader or any IO-classes.suppose you have that String in testing.txt file then by reading each line from file you can split it by separator (+). and iterate over array and print.
BufferedReader br = null;
try {
String sCurrentLine;
br = new BufferedReader(new FileReader("C:\\testing.txt"));//file name with path
while ((sCurrentLine = br.readLine()) != null) {
String[] strArr = sCurrentLine.split("\\+");
for(String str:strArr){
System.out.println(str);
}
}
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
} finally {
try {
if (br != null)br.close();
} catch (IOException ex) {
ex.printStackTrace();
}
}

It seems to me like your problem is that you don't want to read the file line by line. So instead, try reading it in parts (say 20 characters each time and building your string):
char[] c = new char[20]; //best to save 20 as a final static somewhere
ArrayList<String> strings = new ArrayList<String>();
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(filename));
while (br.read(c) == 20) {
String str = new String(c);
if (str.contains("+") {
String[] parts = str.split("\\+");
sb.append(parts[0]);
strings.add(sb.toString());
//init new StringBuilder:
sb = new StringBuilder();
sb.add(parts[1]);
} else {
sb.append(str);
}
}

You should be able to get a String of length Integer.MAX_VALUE (always 2147483647 (231 - 1) by the Java specification, the maximum size of an array, which the String class uses for internal storage) or half your maximum heap size (since each character is two bytes), whichever is smaller
How many characters can a Java String have?

Try this one:
private static void readLongString(File file){
ArrayList<String> list = new ArrayList<String>();
StringBuilder builder = new StringBuilder();
int r;
try{
InputStream in = new FileInputStream(file);
Reader reader = new InputStreamReader(in);
while ((r = reader.read()) != -1) {
if(r=='+'){
list.add(builder.toString());
builder = new StringBuilder();
}
builder.append(r);
}
}catch (IOException ex){
ex.printStackTrace();
}
for(String a: list){
System.out.println(a);
}
}

Here is one way, caveat being you can't load more than the max int size (roughly one GB)
FileReader fr=null;
try {
File f=new File("your_file_path");
fr=new FileReader(f);
char[] chars=new char[(int)f.length()];
fr.read(chars);
String s=new String(chars);
//parse your string here
} catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}finally {
if(fr!=null){
try {
fr.close();
} catch (IOException e) {
}
}
}

fileinputstream to read a given file in a particular order and store in byte[] array

I want to develop a program in java wherein the program reads a file using FileInputStream and then separates all the commas(,) and stores the rest of the values in a byte[] array.
for eg.
if my file "a.txt" contains 1,2,3,-21,-44,56,35,11
i want the program to read this file and store the data in a byte array which will contain
byte[] b{1,2,3,-21,-44,56,35,11}.
i have tried to read the file using FileInputStream.read() but after comparing the character for a comma it points to the next character.
can anyone help me out with the code.
import java.io.*;
class a
{
public static void main(String args[])
{
FileInputStream fis;
int inputSize;
try {
fis = new FileInputStream("New.txt");
inputSize = fis.available();
for(int i=0;i<inputSize;i++)
{
if(fis.read()!=44)
System.out.print((char)fis.read());
}
} catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
System.out.println(e.getMessage());
} catch (IOException e) {
System.out.println(e.getMessage());
}
}
}

this might help you out:
private static final String DELIM = ",";
public static void main(String args[]) throws Exception {
// ...
// read the file content line by line with BufferedReader
String line = "5,37,2,-7";
String splitted[] = line.split(DELIM);
byte[] result = new byte[splitted.length];
for (int n = 0; n < splitted.length; ++n) {
result[n] = Byte.parseByte(splitted[n]);
}
System.out.println(Arrays.toString(result));
}
Here's how you can process your file line-by-line:
FileInputStream fis = ...;
BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(fis));
String line = null;
while ((line = br.readLine()) != null) {
// process the String line
}

if(fis.read()!=44)
System.out.print((char)fis.read());
You call read() twice, so 2 characters will be read and your code prints only the second character. That's why you are wondering about
but after comparing the character for a comma it points to the next
character
That gives the clou:
int readChar;
if((readChar = fis.read()) != 44)
System.out.print((char)readChar);

Save content of File as String in Java?

I was working a little bit with config files and file reader classes in java.
I always read/wrote in the files with arrays because I was working with objects.
This looked a little bit like this:
public void loadUserData(ArrayList<User> arraylist) {
try {
List<String> lines = Files.readAllLines(path, Charset.defaultCharset());
for(String line : lines) {
String[] userParams = line.split(";");
String name = userParams[0];
String number= userParams[1];
String mail = userParams[2];
arraylist.add(new User(name, number, mail));
}
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
This works fine, but how can I save the content of a file as only one single string?
When I read a file, the string I use should be the exact same as the content of the file (without the use of arrays or line splits).
how can I do that?
Edit:
I try to read a SQL-Statement out of a file to use it with JDBC later on. That's why I need the content of the File as a single String

This method will work
public static void readFromFile() throws Exception{
FileReader fIn = new FileReader("D:\\Test.txt");
BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(fIn);
String line = null;
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
while ((line = br.readLine()) != null) {
sb.append(line);
sb.append("\n");
}
String text = sb.toString();
System.out.println(text);
}

I hope this is what you need:
public void loadUserData(ArrayList<User> arraylist) {
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
try {
List<String> lines = Files.readAllLines(path, Charset.defaultCharset());
for(String line : lines) {
// String[] userParams = line.split(";");
//String name = userParams[0];
//String number= userParams[1];
//String mail = userParams[2];
sb.append(line);
}
String jdbcString = sb.toString();
System.out.println("JDBC statements read from file: " + jdbcString );
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
or maybe this:
String content = new Scanner(new File("filename")).useDelimiter("\\Z").next();
System.out.println(content);

Just do that:
final FileChannel fc;
final String theFullStuff;
try (
fc = FileChannel.open(path, StandardOpenOptions.READ);
) {
final ByteBuffer buf = ByteBuffer.allocate(fc.size());
fc.read(buf);
theFullStuff = new String(buf.array(), theCharset);
}
nio for the win! :p

You could always create a Buffered reader e.g.
File anInputFile = new File(/*input path*/);
FileReader aFileReader = new FileReader(anInputFile);
BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(aFileReader)
String yourSingleString = "";
String aLine = reader.readLine();
while(aLine != null)
{
singleString += aLine + " ";
aLine = reader.readLine();
}

very long string as a response of web service

I am getting a really long string as the response of the web service I am collecting it in the using the StringBuilder but I am unable to obtain the full value I also used StringBuffer but had no success.
Here is the code I am using:
private static String read(InputStream in ) throws IOException {
//StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder(1000);
StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer();
String s = "";
BufferedReader r = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader( in ), 1000);
for (String line = r.readLine(); line != null; line = r.readLine()) {
sb.append(line);
s += line;
} in .close();
System.out.println("Response from Input Stream Reader >>>" + sb.toString());
System.out.println("Response from Input S >>>>>>>>>>>>" + s);
return sb.toString();
}
Any help is appreciated.

You can also split the string in array of strings in order to see all of them
String delimiter = "put a delimiter here e.g.: \n";
String[] datas=sb.toString().split(delimiter);
for(String string datas){
System.out.println("Response from Input S >>>>>>>>>>>>" + string);
}

The String may not print entirely to the console, but it is actually there. Save it to a file in order to see it.

I do not think that your input is too big for a String, but only not shown to the console because it doesn't accept too long lines. Anyways, here is the solution for a really huge input as characters:
private static String[] readHugeStream(InputStream in) throws IOException {
LinkedList<String> dataList = new LinkedList<>();
boolean finished = false;
//
BufferedReader r = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(in), 0xFFFFFF);
String line = r.readLine();
while (!finished) {
int lengthRead = 0;
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
while (!finished) {
line = r.readLine();
if (line == null) {
finished = true;
} else {
lengthRead += line.length();
if (lengthRead == Integer.MAX_VALUE) {
break;
}
sb.append(line);
}
}
if (sb.length() != 0) {
dataList.add(sb.toString());
}
}
in.close();
String[] data = dataList.toArray(new String[]{});
///
return data;
}
public static void main(String[] args) {
try {
String[] data = readHugeStream(new FileInputStream("<big file>"));
} catch (IOException ex) {
Logger.getLogger(StackoverflowStringLong.class.getName()).log(Level.SEVERE, null, ex);
} catch (OutOfMemoryError ex) {
System.out.println("out of memory...");
}
}

System.out.println() does not print all the characters , it can display only limited number of characters in console. You can create a file in SD card and copy the string there as a text document to check your exact response.
try
{
File root = new File(Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory(), "Responsefromserver");
if (!root.exists())
{
root.mkdirs();
}
File gpxfile = new File(root, "response.txt");
FileWriter writer = new FileWriter(gpxfile);
writer.append(totalResponse);
writer.flush();
writer.close();
}
catch(IOException e)
{
System.out.println("Error:::::::::::::"+e.getMessage());
throw e;
}