Files. What is wrong with this??

[Norm]

Its an occupational hazard.

[Tullamore]

Ha...no. I tried that. I entered it before the import statements. It said I was missing an enum or class or something. So I tried it after the class statement. didn't work there either. Sorry man.

[Norm]

You need to put Junky's code in the main method.

[Junky]

Wow! I guess I should have been explicit.

[Norm]

It doesn't help. Post #13 implies to put the code after line 9.

[Tullamore]

I'm sorry guys, like I said, total beginner here. Here's what I did:

public static void main(String[] args)throws IOException
	{
		
		String firstfile;
		String secondfile;
		Scanner keyboard= new Scanner(System.in);
		
		System.out.println(System.getProperty("user.dir"));

		System.out.println("Enter the name of file 1");
		firstfile= keyboard.nextLine();

		System.out.println("Enter the name of file 2");
		secondfile= keyboard.nextLine();

		UpperCaseFile object= new UpperCaseFile(firstfile, secondfile);

		System.exit(0);
	}
}

and it returns nothing. Just the same error from before. Maybe I'm beyond help...i don't know.

[Tullamore]

Oops. Ok it returned this: C:\Users\olle\Documents\JCreator LE\MyProjects\UpperCaseFile\classes

So. I should save my notepad file here then right?

[Junky]

What happened when you tried?

[Norm]

Try it. It won't break anything and you'd be able to tell us what happened instead of waiting for our telling you what we think.
Did you try printing the absolutePath for the File class? What does it print?

[Tullamore]

Ok. I tried it. And I get this:

Enter the name of file 1
abc.txt
Enter the name of file 2
ABC.txt

Process completed.

So when I go back in to abc.txt it should be Uppercase right? But it's not, nothing changed.

[Norm]

Windows file names are not case sensitive.
ABC.txt is the same file as abc.txt
Use different filenames for input and output.
In general for testing you should always use different filenames.

[Junky]

Unless it created ABC.txt in a different directory. If that is true then down the rabbit hole we go again.

[Tullamore]

Holy crap! I finally got it. Wow..that was way harder than it should've been. Thanks a ton you guys! Also your patience is greatly appreciated. :)

[Junky]

Wooohoooo!

[lnkhanal]

You must give the full file path in order to provide right job to the code. Program must know what to do on what.
If I am not too primitive in java programming, this style is correct as I did in my code
Java Code:

public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
...
File inputFile = new File("D:\\images\\myImage.png");
...
}