WSAD - How to read/find text file.

[John Coxey]

All:
- I am trying to read a simple text file in WSAD v5.0
- Some questions?
1. Does the text file need to be in a *.jar file?
2. Where should I put the text file?
3. What about the classpath? Do I need to set it?
4. What would the line of code look like to be able to find/read the text file?
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I've been playing with this for a week now, and the IBM documentation is all over the place on this one.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks,
John Coxey
[email protected]

[Scott Minor]

Originally posted by John Coxey:
All:
- I am trying to read a simple text file in WSAD v5.0
- Some questions?
1. Does the text file need to be in a *.jar file?
2. Where should I put the text file?
3. What about the classpath? Do I need to set it?
4. What would the line of code look like to be able to find/read the text file?
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I've been playing with this for a week now, and the IBM documentation is all over the place on this one.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks,
John Coxey
[email protected]

John,
What are you really trying to do. All you need to do is know where the file is and java will open it. I have a program that ftp's a file from a remote location and then opens the "TXT" file and processes it.

[John Coxey]

Scott:
- I am trying to read in a Properties file.

    myProperties = new Properties();
    myProperties.load(new FileInputStream("somefile.dat"));
    

- Problem is where do I put the file "somefile.dat"?
- The next problem, how do I set the classpath in WSAD so that I can find "somefile.dat".
- Note: The java program above as well as "somefile.dat" are located in the same WSAD project.
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Can anyone answer the above?
Scott, does this help?
Thanks,
John Coxey
[email protected]

[Sunil Dumpala]

Hi John,

I am facing a similar problem. I am not sure where to place my properties file. I tried putting it in Project>properties>Java Build Path > Libraries

But with no use. Have you figured out what needs to be done for this? Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Sunil

[Sunil Dumpala]

Never mind I figured it out. Thanks.