[SOLVED] Delete Current line from file

[Azndaddy]

Hi, can some one help me out
First of all, how do i call a command from a class
eg. my class is called Util and it contain all the necessary information to readFile and writeFile etc.

I want this class to call a command, so when i type delete in the console it would delete the current line in the file that has been open. the code for this i have at the moment are:

public class Delete extends Command2
{

public Delete(Buffer buffer)
{
super("delete", buffer);
}

public void execute()
{
Util util = new Util();
--> don't know what to do afterward
}
}

in the public void execute()
{
}
i want to be able to delete a current line from a file, but don't know how to implement it

help would be great

kind regards

[DonCash]

Hey Azndaddy,

I wrote you a quick example class showing how I would do it.
Hopefully you can use this to expand on your own work.

The program reads in a txt file, processes it line by line and after each line asks you if you want to delete it or not. If you press enter it will proceed to the next line. If you type 'delete' it will delete the current line.

The output is saved to a new file.

import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.BufferedWriter;
import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.FileWriter;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.io.Writer;

public class deletelineClass {

public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
		
// Creates file to write to
Writer output = null;
output = new BufferedWriter(new FileWriter("output_path/output.txt"));
String newline = System.getProperty("line.separator");
		
// Read in a file & process line by line
FileInputStream in = new FileInputStream("file_path/file.txt");
BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(in));
String strLine;
				
while ((strLine = br.readLine()) != null) {
			
System.out.println(strLine);
			
// Open up standard input from command
BufferedReader br2 = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(System.in)); 
String command = null; 
		      
System.out.println("Delete line?");
		      
try { 
command = br2.readLine(); 
if (command.equals("delete")){
System.out.println("Line Deleted.");
System.out.println("");
}else{
// Write non deleted lines to file
output.write(strLine);
output.write(newline);
}
		    	 
} catch (IOException ioe) { 
System.out.println("IO error reading command line input");
System.exit(1); 
}
			
}
output.close();
System.out.println("End of file. DonCash is the man.");
  }
}

:o

[Hemanth Kumar]

What if we want to delete exactly the second line of a file at first attempt only? can we do this?