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Message:

"readLine" is not working

Posted by Bhargav on December 26, 2001 at 6:57 AM

i have tried out readLine() but then the record which i am reading from a text file is very large for the string variable which i am using , hence it is reading but then at the end giving exception. pls help...
my code is like this... :-

/*****code goes here****/

f = new File("test.txt");

FileReader fr = new FileReader(f);

BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(fr);

String rec;

while((rec = br.readLine()) != null)
{
//some code..
}

psl help it is urgent...
thank u..

bhargav..
> > I want to know if it is possible to read a whole file once into
> > a string or into a char array ( not byte[] ).
> > If it isn't possible , since I know how to read the file once into
> > a byte array, so is there anyway to convert a byte array to a char
> > array ?

> Yes. I've done this before. Create a StringBuffer to hold your data and a BufferedReader to read it in. Then, write a loop that uses readLine() to read in each line of data and append it to what you've already read.