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Thread: Input and Output files?

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    Default Input and Output files?

    Hey guys, I'm getting into the whole Input/Output thing in Java and I wrote this example code that I found in my book. I don't know how to use it because I've never tried working with these types of programs before. I've tried writing the name of the file I'm trying to input and I've also tried writing the location of the file I'm trying to input but nothing has seemed to work. Could anyone tell me what I need to write so that it works? (I'm using Windows 7).
    import java.io.File;
    import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
    import java.io.PrintWriter;
    import java.util.Scanner;
     
    /*
     * This program applies line numbers to a file.
     */
    public class LineNumberer 
    {
    	public static void main(String[] args) throws FileNotFoundException
    	{
    		// Prompt the input and the output file names
     
    		Scanner console = new Scanner(System.in);
    		System.out.println("Input file: ");
    		String inputFileName = console.next();
    		System.out.println("Output file: ");
    		String outputFileName = console.next();
     
    		// Construct 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;
     
    		// Read the input and write the output.
     
    		while (in.hasNextLine())
    		{
    			String line = in.nextLine();
    			out.println("/" + lineNumber + " */" + line);
    			lineNumber++;
    		}
     
    		in.close();
    		out.close();
    	}
    }


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    Default Re: Input and Output files?

    Have you stepped through this with a debugger or at least added some print statements to figure out what's going on? Your next step is to figure out where this stops working. Can you get the input from the user properly? Do the files exist where you think they do? Does the input file contain text?
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    you need to send the user input to a stream to make it readable all you've done at this point is set up the file to be used.... use FileInputStream and pass the user input as the parameter

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