Thread: RandomAccessFile

Hi,

Is it possible using this class to find away to the method "seek" to somehow start a newline of a code? I understand how to get it to find the end of the file with the length method, but it still writes it on the same line. Can I somehow tell it to find the eof and then start a newline. I tried all the simple ways such as "\n" and nothing. Any suggestions.

I would think the api of the class would answer this question. What did it say?

If all you want to do is append to a file why not just append a new line? No need to seek the end of a file just to append to it. I would think there is a way to append to a file. Search engines are your friend.

here is the test file i been working with before i use it in my main program

  String line1 = "First  line \n";
       String line2 = "Second  line2 \n";
       File f = new File("C:\\Test\\Hello3");
       RandomAccessFile raf = new RandomAccessFile(f,"rw");
       raf.writeBytes(line1);
       raf.writeBytes(line2);
       raf.seek(line1.length());
       byte[] buffer = new byte[line2.length()];
       Scanner sr = null;
       sr = new Scanner(f);
       while(sr.hasNext()){
           String a = sr.next();
           System.out.print(a);
       }

It writes it on the same line. I don't know why it just blatantly ignores this"\n".

Can anyone help me on this?