[cybernaut09]

I need to write Hashtable and some text in a single file. Below is the way how I did it .

		out =new BufferedWriter(new OutputStreamWriter(new FileOutputStream(new File(pathToSave + ".ind"))));
		out.write(hashEncodeTable + "[#]"+someData);//Write out the specfied string to the file

as I have both Hashtable and some text in one file I have not used out.writeObject(hashEncodeTable) , and separated them with [#] .
Now I am reading the file and extracting the hashtable from the file in a string object using the following code .

		indexOfKey = rawData.indexOf("[#]");
	System.out.println("indexofkey ="+indexOfKey);
	hashFromFile=rawData.substring(0,indexOfKey);
	System.out.println("hashFromFile ="+hashFromFile);

The program is running fine . But now I need to convert the string object hashFromFile back to hashtable . In other words I need a way to save Hashtable along with some text in a text file , and then read the text file and separate the Hashtable and the text . I hope I have expressed my problem clearly . Please help .

This post has been edited by cybernaut09: 09 December 2008 - 03:23 PM

[pbl]

Who needs to read it back ?
If it is a Java Application that can know the objects in your HashTable just writeObject(the whole hasTable)

[cybernaut09]

I tried writeObject method like

out.writeObject(hashEncodeTable + "[#]"+someData );

but I am getting error

 
java:60: cannot find symbol
symbol  : method writeObject(java.lang.String)
location: class java.io.BufferedWriter
						out.writeObject(hashEncodeTable + "[#]"+someData );
						   ^
1 error

I have imported

import java.util.*;
import java.io.*;

and I have created HashTable object as

Hashtable<Character,String> huffEncodeTable = new Hashtable<Character,String>();

So please elaborate what you suggested PBL . Thank you for replying previously.

[g00se]

Use Properties instead. They're both Maps but Properties has a method for saving:

http://java.sun.com/...va.lang.String)