Re: file output in java : Notepad gives weird results

From:
Wayne <nospam@all4me.invalid>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Sat, 29 Mar 2008 22:41:08 -0400
Message-ID:
<47eefdb3$0$17351$4c368faf@roadrunner.com>
ankur wrote:

I used the following code to write output to a file.
FileOutputStream fout = new FileOutputStream(fname,true);
        PrintStream ps = new PrintStream(fout);
Random r = new Random(10);
        for(int i = 0 ; i <= r1-1; i++)
        {
            for (int j = 0 ; j <= c1-1; j++)
            {
                m1[i][j] = r.nextInt(10);
                //System.out.println(m1[i][j]);
                ps.print(m1[i][j]);
                ps.printf("\n");
            }

                //ps.printf("\r");
        }
        ps.close();
        fout.close();
        }

with this code if I read the output file in notepad I get all junk
characters written out. Like this:

0V0?0V0?0?0?

But if I open this file in textpad the output is fine:

3
0
3
0
6
6

However if I uncomment
//ps.printf("\r");

Output in notepad is surprising. There are no new lines: 303066

But textpad is fine !

Don't understand what is happening !?


You need to use a Writer class to translate the output to text
your system understands. It is possible Textpad has some
auto-detection feature for the file's encoding and is
converting it automatically.

-Wayne

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