String to File,

Cork24

I have being Studying OOP for the last number of weeks, Have being Working with ArrayLists.

But With my OOP exam coming up, i will need to write a program out using Arrays,

So my Question is i have a 2 programs that i have one is ArrayList and the other is Arrays how can i get a String into a Text File using Arrays, I can get it working with ArraysLists

This is my String

    public String toString()
    {
        String result ="\n";
        result += "Name: " + Name + "\n";
        result += "Address: " + Address + "\n"; 
        result += "Phone: " + phone + "\n"; 
        result += "Start Date: " + StartDate + "\n";
        result += "End Date: " + EndDate + "\n";
        result += "Position: " + position + "\n";
        result += "Salary: " + Salary + "\n";
        result += "Sex: " + Sex + "\n";
        result += "Personal Public Service Number: " + PPSNumber + "\n";
        return result;
    }

public void holidays()
    {
        
    double amount;
    int basic = 21; 
    
    for (int i = 0; i < StaffList.length; i++) 
    {
        
         try
         {
                  
                // Create file 
            FileWriter out = new FileWriter("EmployeeRecords.txt");
                
            
                
                System.out.println(StaffList[i]);
                
                amount = StaffList[i].holidays();
                amount += basic;    
            
                out.write();
                out.write ("Total Holidays: " + amount);
                out.write("\n");
                out.write ("-----------------------------------");
                   
                //Close the output stream
                out.close();
                
        }//End Try Write 
         
         
                 //Catch exception if any
                 catch (Exception e) 
                 {
                 //Out Put Error Message if Any Exception is Found. 
                System.err.println("Error: Can Not Create File!  " + e.getMessage()); 
                } //end Catch 
              
         
             //Reading a file
              File file = new File("EmployeeRecords.txt");
              int ch;
              StringBuffer strContent = new StringBuffer("");
              FileInputStream fin = null;
              
              try
              {
                  fin = new FileInputStream(file);
                  while ((ch = fin.read()) != -1)
                         strContent.append((char) ch);
                  fin.close();
              } // Try Read 
              
              catch (Exception e) 
              {
                  System.out.println(e);
              } //End Catch 
              
              //Out Print the File Content to Console. 
              System.out.println(strContent.toString());
              


    }// End If Read / Write Method
    
} //Ends Main Method 

I can get it Working using Array List with the code below..
i tried replacing a few parts of this code to get it Working for an Array.

    for(int i = 0; i < CIT.MemberList.size(); i++)
        {
            EmployeeMember temp = (EmployeeMember)CIT.MemberList.get(i);
            
            
        
             try
             {
                      
                    // Create file 
                    FileWriter out1 = new FileWriter("EmployeeRecords.txt");
                    
                    /*
                     * Takes the EmployeeMember Temp 
                     * and Writes the Object of the ArrayList 
                     * To a Text file using the Following Code. 
                     */
                    
                    out1.write(temp.toString());
                    
                    //Close the output stream
                    out1.close();

Raging_Ninja

Declare the string array. Add the text you want to each position in the string array (perhaps using a split() method if you have it delimited with a certain character). Using a for loop, iterate through each position in the string array writing to the file.

Cork24

i have tried


out.write(StaffList.toString());

but does not seem to work

chrislad

I'm in a similar situation to you.

I would try the .get(int x) method to return the object located at whatever index

eg

for (int i = 0; i< arrayList.length; i++)
{

out.write(arrayList.get(i));

}

I'm not 100% on this but I think that would probably work a bit better as the toString method is inherited by the ArrayList class. This is assuming that the objects in your arraylist are strings.

Cork24

got it working,


out.write(StaffList.toString());

forgotten about the the i when I had it in the for loop,