Thread: File input & output

I have a java assignment due for college (I'm doing 2nd year multimedia programming) in a few weeks and I’m really struggling and don’t have a clue what to do.

The following is the first part of the assignment. I have to implement a Java application that demonstrates the use of file input/output and exception handling. my application should allow the user to enter data about some entity that is stored in a data file. My application should be able to read data from a data file, and to store that data in a set of objects.

The following is what I have already. A lot of it is probably wrong, and I don't know what to do next.


BookTest.java

package books;
 
import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
import java.io.FileReader;
import java.io.PrintWriter;
import java.util.Scanner;
 
public class BookTest {
 
public static void main(String[] args) 
throws FileNotFoundException
{ 
 
File f = new File (input.txt);
 
if ();
{
FileReader = new FileReader();
}
 
/* BufferedReader = new BufferedReader();
PrintWriter pw = new PrintWriter(File);*/
 
//Prompts the user for the input and output file names
/* Scanner console = new Scanner(System.in);
System.out.print("Input file: ");
String inputFileName = console.next();
System.out.print("Output file: ");
String outputFileName = console.next();
 
//Prompts the Scanner and PrintWriter objects for reading and writing
File inputFile = new File(inputFileName);
Scanner in = new Scanner(inputFile); 
PrintWriter out = new PrintWriter(outputFileName);
int lineNumber = 1;
*/
 
 
 
/* while (in.hasNextLine());
{
String line = in.nextLine();
out.println("/* " + lineNumber + " * " + line);
}
in.close();
out.close(); */
 
}
}

Books.java

package books;
 
public class Books {
 
private String title;
private String authorFName;
private String authorLName;
private double price; 
}

I would really appreciate it if anyone could help me please. Thank you.

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