So i have a .txt file in local storage its a simple text file. The text is basically just a series of lines.
I am using the code below to attempt to read the text file (i verify the file exists before calling this method).
public static String GetLocalMasterFileStream(String Operation) throws Exception {
//Get the text file
File file = new File("sdcard/CM3/advices/advice_master.txt");
if (file.canRead() == true) {System.out.println("-----Determined that file is readable");}
//Read text from file
StringBuilder text = new StringBuilder();
BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(file));
String line;
while ((line = br.readLine()) != null) {
text.append(line);
System.out.println("-----" + line); //for producing test output
text.append('\n');
}
br.close();
System.out.print(text.toString());
return text.toString();
}
The code produces in the log
----Determined that file is readable
But that is the ONLY output the file data is not written to the log
Also i have tried inserting before the while loop the following to attempt to just read the first line
line = br.readLine();
System.out.println("-----" + line);
That produces the following output:
-----null
Check this out getExternalStorage
File path = Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory();
File file = new File(path, "textfile.txt");
//text file is copied in sdcard for example
Try to add a lead slash in file path /sdcard/CM3/advices/advice_master.txt
File file = new File("/sdcard/CM3/advices/advice_master.txt");
Try this. Just pass the txt file name as a parameter...
public void readFromFile(String fileName){
/*
InputStream ips;
ips = getClass().getResourceAsStream(fileName);
//reading
try{
InputStreamReader ipsr = new InputStreamReader(ips);
BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(ipsr);
String line;
while ((line = br.readLine())!=null){
//reading goes here ;)
}
br.close();
}
catch (Exception e){
System.out.println(e.toString());
}
*/
// or try this
File sdcard = Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory();
//Get the text file
File file = new File(sdcard,"file.txt");
//Read text from file
StringBuilder text = new StringBuilder();
try {
BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(file));
String line;
while ((line = br.readLine()) != null) {
text.append(line);
text.append('\n');
}
br.close();
}
catch (IOException e) {
//You'll need to add proper error handling here
}
}
Let me refine my answer. You can try another way to read all lines from advice_master.txt and see what happens. It makes sure that all file contents can be read.
Charset charset = Charset.forName("ISO-8859-1");
try {
List<String> lines = Files.readAllLines(Paths.get(YOUR_PATH), charset);
for (String line : lines) {
System.out.println(line);
}
} catch (IOException e) {
System.out.println(e);
}
Related
I tried it this way but it doesn't find the textfile.
try {
FileInputStream fstream = new FileInputStream("textfile.txt");
DataInputStream in = new DataInputStream(fstream);
BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(in));
String strLine;
// Read File Line By Line
while ((strLine = br.readLine()) != null) {
// Print the content on the console
System.out.println(strLine);
}
// Close the input stream
in.close();
} catch (Exception e) {// Catch exception if any
System.err.println("Error: " + e.getMessage());
}
All files are in the same package.
Your text file is inside a the package "trainer" which is inside "src" so when you request it, you must use "src/trainer/textfile.txt". The preceding / denotes the root of the application and is optional if you're not exporting to runnable jars for example.
FileInputStream fstream = new FileInputStream("src/trainer/textfile.txt");
I have created a JSONObject and put values in it like below .
Then I converted my object "h" to string and write a file in the sdcard with that string.
JSONObject h = new JSONObject();
try {
h.put("NAme","Yasin Arefin");
h.put("Profession","Student");
} catch (JSONException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
String k =h.toString();
writeToFile(k);
In the file I see text written like the format below .
{"NAme":Yasin Arefin","Profession":"Student"}
My question is how do I read that particular file and convert those text back to JSONObject ?
To read a file you have 2 options :
Read with a BufferReader and your code would look like this :
//Path to sdcard
File sdcard = Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory();
//Load the file
File file = new File(sdcard,"file.json");
//Read text from file
StringBuilder text = new StringBuilder();
try {
BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(file));
String line;
while ((line = br.readLine()) != null) {
text.append(line);
text.append('\n');
}
br.close();
}
catch (IOException e) {
//You'll need to add proper error handling here
}
The option 2 would be to use a library such as Okio:
In your Gradle file add the library
implementation 'com.squareup.okio:okio:2.2.0'
Then in your activity:
StringBuilder text = new StringBuilder();
try (BufferedSource source = Okio.buffer(Okio.source(file))) {
for (String line; (line = source.readUtf8Line()) != null; ) {
text.append(line);
text.append('\n');
}
}
I've been trying to read a file for the last few days and have tried following other answers but have not succeeded. This is the code I currently have to import the text file:
public ArrayList<String> crteDict() {
try {
BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader
(new FileReader("/program/res/raw/levels.txt"));
String line;
while ((line = br.readLine()) != null) {
String[] linewrds = line.split(" ");
words.add(linewrds[0].toLowerCase());
// process the line.
}
br.close();
}
catch (FileNotFoundException fe){
fe.printStackTrace();
It is meant to read the text file and just create a long Array of words. It keeps ending up in the FileNotFoundException.
Please let me know any answers.
Thanks!
IF your file is stored in the res/raw folder of the android project, you can read it as follows, this code must be inside an Activity class, as this.getResources() refers to Context.getResources():
// The InputStream opens the resourceId and sends it to the buffer
InputStream is = this.getResources().openRawResource(R.raw.levels);
BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(is));
String readLine = null;
try {
// While the BufferedReader readLine is not null
while ((readLine = br.readLine()) != null) {
Log.d("TEXT", readLine);
}
// Close the InputStream and BufferedReader
is.close();
br.close();
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
public static void main(String[] args) {
ArrayList<String> studentTokens = new ArrayList<String>();
ArrayList<String> studentIds = new ArrayList<String>();
try {
// Open the file that is the first
// command line parameter
FileInputStream fstream = new FileInputStream(new File("file1.txt"));
BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(fstream, "UTF8"));
String strLine;
// Read File Line By Line
while ((strLine = br.readLine()) != null) {
strLine = strLine.trim();
if ((strLine.length()!=0) && (!strLine.contains("#"))) {
String[] students = strLine.split("\\s+");
studentTokens.add(students[TOKEN_COLUMN]);
studentIds.add(students[STUDENT_ID_COLUMN]);
}
}
for (int i=0; i<studentIds.size();i++) {
File file = new File("query.txt"); // The path of the textfile that will be converted to csv for upload
BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(file));
String line = "", oldtext = "";
while ((line = reader.readLine()) != null) {
oldtext += line + "\r\n";
}
reader.close();
String newtext = oldtext.replace("sanid", studentIds.get(i)).replace("salabel",studentTokens.get(i)); // Here the name "sanket" will be replaced by the current time stamp
FileWriter writer = new FileWriter("final.txt",true);
writer.write(newtext);
writer.close();
}
fstream.close();
br.close();
System.out.println("Done!!");
} catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
System.err.println("Error: " + e.getMessage());
}
}
The above code of mine reads data from a text file and query is a file that has a query in which 2 places "sanid" and "salabel" are replaced by the content of string array and writes another file final . But when i run the code the the final does not have the queries. but while debugging it shows that all the values are replaced properly.
but while debugging it shows that all the values are replaced properly
If the values are found to be replaced when you debugged the code, but they are missing in the file, I would suggest that you flush the output stream. You are closing the FileWriter without calling flush(). The close() method delegates its call to the underlying StreamEncoder which does not flush the stream either.
public void close() throws IOException {
se.close();
}
Try this
writer.flush();
writer.close();
That should do it.
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How to create a Java String from the contents of a file
Is it possible to process a multi-lined text file and return its contents as a string?
If this is possible, please show me how.
If you need more information, I'm playing around with I/O. I want to open a text file, process its contents, return that as a String and set the contents of a textarea to that string.
Kind of like a text editor.
Use apache-commons FileUtils's readFileToString
Check the java tutorial here -
http://download.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/essential/io/file.html
Path file = ...;
InputStream in = null;
StringBuffer cBuf = new StringBuffer();
try {
in = file.newInputStream();
BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(in));
String line = null;
while ((line = reader.readLine()) != null) {
System.out.println(line);
cBuf.append("\n");
cBuf.append(line);
}
} catch (IOException x) {
System.err.println(x);
} finally {
if (in != null) in.close();
}
// cBuf.toString() will contain the entire file contents
return cBuf.toString();
Something along the lines of
String result = "";
try {
fis = new FileInputStream(file);
bis = new BufferedInputStream(fis);
dis = new DataInputStream(bis);
while (dis.available() != 0) {
// Here's where you get the lines from your file
result += dis.readLine() + "\n";
}
fis.close();
bis.close();
dis.close();
} catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
return result;
String data = "";
try {
BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(new File("some_file.txt")));
StringBuilder string = new StringBuilder();
for (String line = ""; line = in.readLine(); line != null)
string.append(line).append("\n");
in.close();
data = line.toString();
}
catch (IOException ioe) {
System.err.println("Oops: " + ioe.getMessage());
}
Just remember to import java.io.* first.
This will replace all newlines in the file with \n, because I don't think there is any way to get the separator used in the file.