[SOLVED] Help...

[ninaT]

Hi, i hope someone could help me...

I just want to look in a file for an specific word and when I find it i want to replace that word with some other.

Any idea on how could i do that? and Can I do that with any type of file,( .txt, .properties, etc)???

Thanks in advanced

[Chris.Brown.SPE]

Try this and let me know if it is what you were looking for. It will accept any filetype and will overwrite the existing file with the new one. I didnt bother testing it much, but it worked with what i had except in notepad the new lines didnt actually make a new line but it looked ok in wordpad and when used as more input.

  static void replaceWord(String filename, String oldword, String newword) {
String temp="";
String line;
    try {
  FileReader input = new FileReader(filename);
 
  BufferedReader bufRead = new BufferedReader(input);
  while ((line=bufRead.readLine())!=null)
  {
 temp += line+"\n";
  }
 temp=temp.replace(oldword, newword);
 System.out.println(temp);
 input.close();
 bufRead = null;
 input = null;
 FileWriter fstream = new FileWriter(filename);
 BufferedWriter out = new BufferedWriter(fstream);
 
 out.write(temp);
 out.close();
} catch (Exception e) {
  System.out.println("error");
  e.printStackTrace();
}
  }

[ninaT]

Thanks!!! everything worked great!!!!!
Gracias!!!

[Chris.Brown.SPE]

Be sure to mark the thread as solved. And click the rep button for me if you got time. Thanks. Glad i could help.