Thread: Reading lines of a text file into a string array

You will either need to declare the size of the array beforehand or use something like an ArrayList

http://www.javaprogrammingforums.com...arraylist.html

Have a look at the Java class StringBuilder.

I beleive this will help you with what you are trying to achive.

When you have created an instance of StringBuilder use the append method to append your line to the string and if you want a new line after each line of text just do this.

mystringbuilder.append(lineFromFile + "\n");

Then when you are done you can use mystringbuilder.toString(); to return the entire string.

I forgot to mention check this link for the JavaDoc's on StringBuilder StringBuilder (Java 2 Platform SE 5.0)

Enjoy

Originally Posted by generalitico

What about to store it in a Vector

like this....

import java.util.Vector;
 
public static void ReadFile2String(String InputFile)
    {
     try{
        FileInputStream fstream = new FileInputStream(InputFile);
        // Get the object of DataInputStream
        DataInputStream in = new DataInputStream(fstream);
 
        BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(in));
        String strLine;
        //Read File Line By Line
        text = "";
        Vector myVector = new Vector();
            while ((strLine = br.readLine()) != null) //loop through each line
            {
             myVector.add(strLine );
            // Print the content on the console
            text +=(strLine+"\n");  // Store the text file in the string
 
            }
        in.close();//Close the input stream
       int i=0;
       for(i=0;i<myVector.size();i++){
            System.out.println("Position "+ i+" "+myVector.elementAt(i));
        }
 
 
        }
        catch (Exception e)
        {//Catch exception if any
        System.out.println("Error: " + e.getMessage());
        }
    }
 
}

More of a pet-peeve than anything else, but usually when you declare a List (you have used a Vector in this case) you want to specify what type of Objects are in that list. This is just a way to make it easier to access the Objects, as you will not need to cast the objects when you get them. This is not as much of an issue when you use Lists of Strings, as they are easy to cast since their Object Representation is just a String of its value (sort of odd, and I'm unsure how to explain it).

However, this does become a problem if you had a Vector of Objects other than Strings. For example, a Vector of JFrames.
If you declared your Vector using the way you did: Vector myVector = new Vector();, you would access the JFrames by saying:

JFrame frame = (JFrame)myVector.get(0);

Alternatively, if you declared your Vector to be restricted to only a Vector of JFrames like this: Vector<JFrame> myVector = new Vector<JFrame>();, you would access the JFrames by saying:

JFrame frame = myVector.get(0);

So, the more acceptable way of creating your Vector above (acceptable meaning the general consensus of the programming community) would be saying:

Vector<String> myVector = new Vector<String>();

Once again, sort of a moot point when you have a Vector of Strings, but it is good advise to have on the back-burner for your future data structures. Tell me if I am unclear.