Re: Reading a text file

From:
Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Fri, 11 Feb 2011 22:42:44 -0500
Message-ID:
<ij4vmf$9h3$1@news.eternal-september.org>
On 2/11/2011 9:55 PM, bruce wrote:

On Feb 11, 9:51 pm, Eric Sosman<esos...@ieee-dot-org.invalid> wrote:

On 2/11/2011 9:26 PM, bruce wrote:

I am reading a file with

      BufferedReader reader = null;
      StringBuffer contents = new StringBuffer();
      while ((text = reader.readLine()) != null) {
                  contents.append(text)
                      .append(System.getProperty(
                          "line.separator"));
                  }

This code reads the file fine. My problem is that when I put the data
into a text, it is displayed with a space character before ever
character. (bruce => b r u c e)

What am I doing wrong??


      Something in the "it is displayed" code would be my guess.


This is how I am displaying the input text:

txtText.setText(contents.toString());

Is that the wrong way to insert the file data (contents) into the text
area (txtText)?


     Sorry: I can't get your code to compile, much less run and
exhibit desirable or undesirable behavior.

     (In other words, STOP dripping your code out line by line by
incomplete out-of-context line! "Doctor, it hurts!" "What hurts?"
"Even worse than yesterday!" Please provide code that is SHORT and
SELF-CONTAINED and COMPLETE and COMPILABLE. Yes, including the
package and imports and class lines: Something someone who feels like
being helpful can dump AS IS through his Java compiler and see what
happens. I can't debug what I can't see. Stop teasing!)

--
Eric Sosman
esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid

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