[Knautschtabak]

Hi Psycho,

thats a nice tutorial. But I see one litte problem in the code for file input and file output.

Code

try
  {
  FileReader fr = new FileReader(fileName);
  BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(fr);

  String line = br.readLine();

  while(line != null)
  {
    // display
  System.out.println(line);

    // get next line
    line = br.readLine();
  }

  br.close();
  }
  catch(Exception e)
  {
  System.out.println(e);
  }

You should close the reader within a finally-clause to get shure that it will also be closed after an exception.

Man, I had really trouble with this in a bigger project because someone didn't close streams like this. Some files couldn't be deleted sometimes and it took a while to figure out that open streams where blocking them.
This may not be a problem in a little program which stops running after the exception occured. But such things are forgotten soon, if one doesn't it right everytime.

This is a solution:

Code

FileReader fr;
        BufferedReader br = null;
        try {
            fr = new FileReader(fileName);
            br = new BufferedReader(fr);

            String line = br.readLine();

            while (line != null) {
                // display
                System.out.println(line);

                // get next line
                line = br.readLine();
            }

        } catch (Exception e) {
            System.out.println(e);
        } finally{
            try {
                br.close();
            } catch (IOException e) {
                e.printStackTrace();
            }
        }

Deque

[Psycho]

Thanks Deque. At the time of writing the original post (almost 2 years ago), it was even a learning experience for myself.

[seasnake_730]

Great tutorial :)

I'm learning Java in college atm, but I'm trying to work ahead so I can get more experience. This is the first tutorial I've read that helped me understand input.

Thank you :D

[ajayu1992]

thankyou soo soo much for this wonderful tutorial... The first tutorial i read and understood regarding file operations :)

[Funn1k]

wow psycho!U just rocked !help me on exceptional handling pls :)

[mr.jitterbud]

Another great tut. I just relized php seems to be similar to java because this looks kinda the same. Noob thoughts