Editing TXT file?

Hello once again everybody! I have a question on how do I modify txt file?
My txt file named "user.txt" contains inside:

Code:

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password bla
iron 5
gold 1005
money 564

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What I need it to do is to edit the gold's value to 12 (the number can be string or integer it doesn't matter for me).
Could you help me?

The steps involved include:

1. Read in the text file. A Scanner could work well for this.
2. Parse the text file as it is being read in. In other words translate the information held into useful information, into Java objects and data. In your situation this may be simple as finding the line that holds the gold value.
3. Change the data. In your situation this may involve simply changing the data held by the line that holds the gold data.
4. Write out the new text file, perhaps using a PrintWriter that holds a FileWriter.

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Originally Posted by Fubarable

The steps involved include:

1. Read in the text file. A Scanner could work well for this.
2. Parse the text file as it is being read in. In other words translate the information held into useful information, into Java objects and data. In your situation this may be simple as finding the line that holds the gold value.
3. Change the data. In your situation this may involve simply changing the data held by the line that holds the gold data.
4. Write out the new text file, perhaps using a PrintWriter that holds a FileWriter.

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And how about deleting the file?

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Originally Posted by Lionlev

And how about deleting the file?

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My steps would have you over-writing the file. A safer way if desired would be to first copy the file before over-writing it.

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Originally Posted by Fubarable

My steps would have you over-writing the file. A safer way if desired would be to first copy the file before over-writing it.

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Oh ok thanks

I wrote some code and I am quite stuck...

Code:

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String setCMD[] = new String[1];
setCMD[0] = "gold"; //value that should be changed
setCMD[1] = "12"; //into this
try
{
        checkUser4 = new Scanner(new File("user.txt"));
} catch (Exception e) {}
String fileContent = checkUser4.toString();
fileContent.replaceAll(setCMD[0]+" ", setCMD[0]+ " " +setCMD[1]); // Can't seemed to figure it out how to find the number that comes after "gold"

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Can't seemed to figure it out how to find the number that comes after "gold"

What does the posted code have to do with the problem of reading lines from a file? What is the setCMD array for?

You need to read the API doc for the Scanner class to see what methods it has for reading data from a file.

I suggest you break the problem up into several simple steps.
Read and print the lines in the file.
When that works, then search the lines as they are read for the one to be editted.
When that works, change the contents of the line.

Later worry about creating the new updated file, until later.

Do the above steps one at a time. Get each to work before moving to the next.

• Won't that code throw an array index out of bounds exception? You've declared the array to have a length of 1, and yet try to insert two items into it.
• You don't want to ignore exceptions as you are doing.
• Consider using a StringBuilder to hold the new file's text, and reading from the old file into the StringBuilder, unless it's then line you want to change, then insert your new text in its place.

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Originally Posted by Norm

What does the posted code have to do with the problem of reading lines from a file? What is the setCMD array for?

You need to read the API doc for the Scanner class to see what methods it has for reading data from a file.

I suggest you break the problem up into several simple steps.
Read and print the lines in the file.
When that works, then search the lines as they are read for the one to be editted.
When that works, change the contents of the line.

Later worry about creating the new updated file, until later.

Do the above steps one at a time. Get each to work before moving to the next.

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I don't have problems with the code yet, I just don't know how to write a code that will find a line in a string that I need to edit

Look at the String class's methods for ways to find one String in another String.

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Originally Posted by Norm

Look at the String class's methods for ways to find one String in another String.

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Well there is some indexOf searches for the specific word, but I am not sure how to get the number that comes after it....
Should I read the file spread everything in to arrays like name[] and number[] by using loop?
int num = 0;
while(string.hasNext){
name[num] = string.next();
string.next();
num++;
}

Like this? Or there is a better way?

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Originally Posted by Norm

Look at the String class's methods for ways to find one String in another String.

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Forgot to mention... We don't know what the number of gold is. It's always "random"

I would read each line, one at a time, and thus would use the Scanner's hasNextLine() and nextLine() methods. I would use one of String's methods to see if the String read in contains "gold" in it, and then act if it does.

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Originally Posted by Fubarable

I would read each line, one at a time, and thus would use the Scanner's hasNextLine() and nextLine() methods. I would use one of String's methods to see if the String read in contains "gold" in it, and then act if it does.

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Is this the right way to do it?

Code:

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//checkuser4 is a scanner

while(checkUser4.hasNextLine()){
        if(checkUser4.findInLine(setCMD[0]) == setCMD[0]){
                String lol1 = checkUser4.nextLine();
                splitU = lol1.split(" ");
        }
}

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So I get the splitU[0] = gold and split[1] = the gold's value

AHHH NVM CHANGED THE CODE TO SOMETHING ELSE.....

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Originally Posted by Norm

Look at the String class's methods for ways to find one String in another String.

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Ok I wrote this code, but it gives me error "No lines found":

Code:

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try
{
        checkUser4 = new Scanner(new File("user.txt"));
} catch (Exception e) {}

String splitU[] = new String[1];
                                                                                               
while(checkUser4.hasNextLine()){
        String lol1 = checkUser4.nextLine();
        if(lol1.contains("gold")){
                splitU = lol1.split(" ");
                System.out.println("1st: "+splitU[0] + "Second: " +splitU[1]);
        } else {
                checkUser4.nextLine();
        }
}

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it gives me error "No lines found":

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When you get error messages, please copy the full text and paste them here.


You should not ignore exceptions. Add a call to printStackTrace() to the empty catch block.


I still suggest that you write the code to do one thing at a time. Start with a simple loop to read all the lines in the file and print them, nothing else. Just read and print the lines.

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Originally Posted by Norm

When you get error messages, please copy the full text and paste them here.


You should not ignore exceptions. Add a call to printStackTrace() to the empty catch block.

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The error : java.util.NoSuchElementException: No line found

The txt file:
password f6
ulvl 6
uexp 500
gold 100
uiron 20
ucrystal 5
coal 2
ulayer 8
umaxlayer 11

Quote:

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Originally Posted by Norm

When you get error messages, please copy the full text and paste them here.


You should not ignore exceptions. Add a call to printStackTrace() to the empty catch block.


I still suggest that you write the code to do one thing at a time. Start with a simple loop to read all the lines in the file and print them, nothing else. Just read and print the lines.

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Ok, I am gonna print everything out ...

If you have a while block that checks a Scanner for hasNextLine(), it is key that you call nextLine on the Scanner object only once within that same block. If you don't follow this rule, then you're doing an unchecked read on the Scanner and are asking for trouble. The same is true for any of the Scanner#hasNextXXX()/Scanner#nextXXX() method pairs.

Quote:

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Originally Posted by Norm

When you get error messages, please copy the full text and paste them here.


You should not ignore exceptions. Add a call to printStackTrace() to the empty catch block.


I still suggest that you write the code to do one thing at a time. Start with a simple loop to read all the lines in the file and print them, nothing else. Just read and print the lines.

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OBBAAA Got it to work, thanks for the tip!
Now all I have to do is to convert the whole text file in to a string so I can modify it, how can I do that? IS there anything like string = scanner.readAll();
?

Oh and yeah I want to change the line in the text file

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Originally Posted by Fubarable

If you have a while block that checks a Scanner for hasNextLine(), it is key that you call nextLine on the Scanner object only once within that same block. If you don't follow this rule, then you're doing an unchecked read on the Scanner and are asking for trouble. The same is true for any of the Scanner#hasNextXXX()/Scanner#nextXXX() method pairs.

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Oh.. Well I quite fixed the code... Read the post above me