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Reading INI file into the application

Posted by David Hwang on April 12, 2000 at 3:55 PM

Hi,

I have an application which reads in different properties from an INI file. However when I move the application to another platform, the directory name for the INI file needs to be changed.

For example, in Windows I would have

RandomAccessFile raf = new RandomAccessFile("c:\app\hello.ini", "r");

and on Unix it will become

RandomAccessFile raf = new RandomAccessFile("/usr/local/app/hello.ini", "r");

It is troublesome to change the code to reflect the directory change. Is there a way to put the file in the CLASSPATH and load it?

Thanks for your help!

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