Re: saving as a .dat file

From:
"porky008" <porky008@charter.net>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.help
Date:
21 Nov 2006 09:46:37 -0800
Message-ID:
<1164131197.237043.101450@b28g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>
ab wrote:

You just want to iterate through your java.util.List<DVD> dvds = new
java.util.ArrayList<DVD>();

output 'all' your dvd variables into your .dat on one line separated by
a comma, so when you read a line you split it by comma giving you array
of your data items.

initialise your .dat file
for (DVD dvd : dvds) {
output dvd.title + ","
output dvd.genre + ","
etc.
output "\n" //new line
}

read .dat
BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader( new FileReader( ".dat file"
) );
String str = null;
while ( ( str = reader.readLine( ) ) != null ) {
yourarray = str.split(",")

DVD newDvd = new DVD( yourarray[0], yourarray[1], yourarray[2] etc)
dvds.add(newDvd)
}

this is a simple way of doing what your after. You should really start
learning how to output your data as xml format.


I got it this far but it is saying illegal escape character. Can I get
some help on this please?
      btnSave.addActionListener(new ActionListener(){
          public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent ae){

        try
        {
          File file = new File("C:\data\inventory.dat ");
          PrintWriter out = new PrintWriter(new BufferedWriter(new
FileWriter(file)));
          out.println(dvds);
          out.println("another line");
          out.println(dvd);
          out.close();
        }
        catch(IOException ioe){ioe.printStackTrace();}
        }
    });

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