Need help with Files

[mrdestroy]

I cannot run my code, pls help me to find the reason:

public static void main(String[] args) {
		String fullName, location, exit, enter, output = "";
		int age;

		try {
			FileWriter outputFile = new FileWriter("Students.txt");
			PrintWriter print = new PrintWriter(outputFile);
			do {
				fullName = JOptionPane
						.showInputDialog("Please enter your full name: ");
				location = JOptionPane
						.showInputDialog("Please enter your location: ");
				age = Integer.parseInt(JOptionPane
						.showInputDialog("Please enter your age: "));

				print.println(fullName + "\n" + location + "\n" + age);

				exit = JOptionPane.showInputDialog(null,
						"Do you want to continue? (Yes or No)");
			} while (exit.equalsIgnoreCase("Yes"));

			outputFile.close();
			print.close();
			
		} catch (IOException e) {
			e.printStackTrace();
		}
		try {
			FileReader fReader = new FileReader("Students.txt");
			BufferedReader inputFile = new BufferedReader(fReader);
			while (true) {
				enter = inputFile.readLine();
				if (enter == null)
					break;
				
				fullName = enter.substring(0, enter.indexOf("\n")).toUpperCase();
				
				enter = enter.substring(enter.indexOf("\n")+1);
				location = enter.substring(0, enter.indexOf("\n"));
				
				age = Integer.parseInt(enter.substring(0, enter.indexOf("\n")).trim());

				output += fullName + "\n" + location + "\n" + age;
			}
			JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, output);

			fReader.close();
			inputFile.close();

		} catch (Exception e) {
			e.printStackTrace();
		}

	}
}

[Eranga]

What you mean cannot run your code? Any error message you get when you run it. If so copy-paste it here to see. You must explain much clearly about your question.

[hardwired]

The first half works okay. What does your Students.txt file look like?
The second half of your app is trying to parse lines of this file with the String substring method and it looks like this may be an area of difficulty.

[mrdestroy]

oh, my bad, I forgot to post the error, I try to fix but still not working. I think the second Try catch works wrongly. The program cannot read the text.

java.lang.StringIndexOutOfBoundsException: String index out of range: -1
	at java.lang.String.substring(Unknown Source)
	at Problem1.main(Problem1.java:49)

[Eranga]

You cannot do this.

fullName = enter.substring(0, enter.indexOf("\n")).toUpperCase();

How can you detect the new line character this way. It's wrong. Seems to me on the first part you are trying to write some data to a text files, seems ok for me in some distance. Check the file after running the application. I'm sure you'll see some annoying character somewhere in that text file. Because your defining of new line is not good at all.

[mrdestroy]

Please enter your full name: Fullname
Please enter your location: Location
Please enter your age: 20
The Students.txt is like this: FullnameLocation20

[Eranga]

The Students.txt is like this: FullnameLocation20

Are you sure about this. Seems to me you are trying to write those values in different lines.

[mrdestroy]

Yes, I want to write those like this:
Fullname
Location
20

[Norm]

Use the newline character at the end of every String to put the next String on a new line. Or use the println() method.
Your code has those techniques, so are all the Strings being concat in the first string and the next 2 strings are empty so your output is three lines, one with all the data followed by 2 empty lines.

Put delimiting characters around each string in your println():
println(">" + name + "<\n>" + addr + "<\n>" + age + ",");
to show you where the values are.

[mrdestroy]

I changed this
print.println(fullName + "\n" + location + "\n" + age);
to
print.println(fullName);
print.println(location);
print.println(age);
the text now is:
Fullname
Location
20.
(those are just in file .txt)
How can I fix the second half code above to print those on screen?

[Norm]

How can I fix the second half code above to print those on screen?

It would be better if you copied and noted the code you want to change rather than have people guess what lines of code you want to change.

[Eranga]

I changed this
print.println(fullName + "\n" + location + "\n" + age);
to
print.println(fullName);
print.println(location);
print.println(age);
the text now is:
Fullname
Location
20.
(those are just in file .txt)
How can I fix the second half code above to print those on screen?

The best way for me is use of system properties. Do can do it like this.

                print.println(fullName + System.getProperty("line.separator") 
                        + location + System.getProperty("line.separator") + age);

[Eranga]

How can I fix the second half code above to print those on screen?

As I said earlier you cannot do this.

fullName = enter.substring(0, enter.indexOf("\n")).toUpperCase();

You cannot find the newline character index.

In simple way you can do it like this.

            while (true) {
                enter = inputFile.readLine();
                if (enter == null)
                    break;
                
                output = output + "\n" + enter;
            }
            JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, output);

Then you have to think about a design pattern to handle that full name upper case convention and so on. Easiest way to do it is before write them into the file convert into upper case letters.