[nacholibre]

Hello guys, i am kinda dumbfounded not to find an example that shows passing a file stream among methods.
Can anyone show me how?

something like this in C++

void myfunction(ifstream &fp, ...) 

is it the same?

[Dogstopper]

In JAva, just pass the object. Java will take care of the pointers for you.

[nacholibre]

thanks that worked.

no I am kinda having problem with writing a string to the file

so i have the following; out is the out file stream.

String[] data = str.split("/n");

try{
   out.write(data[i]);
}catch(java.io.IOException exp){ exp.printStackTrace();}

the error i am getting is..

main.java:115: cannot find symbol
symbol  : method write(java.lang.String)
location: class java.io.DataOutputStream
                                out.write(data[i]);

writeUTF instead of write worked fine but the file was formatted weird as expected...

any idea how i can write regular string to a file?

[Dogstopper]

Use a DataOutputStream on the FileOutputStream. The DataOutputStream is the programmer-friendly class for output streams in general.

API: http://download.orac...tputStream.html

Here's an example:

DataOutputStream dos = new DataOutputStream(
        new FileOutputStream("filename.file"));

DataOutputStream has 3 methods which directly print Strings:
writeChars: This simply outputs the String as a bunch of characters (the file type is a character file type and not a binary data type).
writeBytes: This outputs the String AS bytes (good for storing Strings in binary files)

And you are familiar with the third, writeUTF().

[g00se]

If all you're writing is a String type, then you should probably be using a Writer, such as FileWriter