Working with file and directories..

[sonia jaswal]

This code is from K&B pg 440... i have understood the program but i have not understood the output given in the program...
code:

Assume that we already have a subdirectory called existingDir in which resides an existing file existingDirFile.txt, which contains several lines of text. When you run the following code,


File existingDir = new File("existingDir"); // assign a dir
System.out.println(existingDir.isDirectory());

File existingDirFile = new File(
existingDir, "existingDirFile.txt"); // assign a file
System.out.println (existingDirFile.isFile());

FileReader fr = new FileReader(existingDirFile};
BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(fr); // make a Reader

String s;
while( (s = br.readLine()) != null) // read data
System.out.printIn(s);

br.close();

the following output will be generated:

true
true
existing sub-dir data
line 2 of text
line 3 of text

// here there is no print command for "existing sub-dir data"... then what is it... is it an explanation??? i just want to confirm....

thanks....

[Alex Belisle Turcot]

Originally posted by sonia jaswal:
...
while( (s = br.readLine()) != null) // read data
System.out.printIn(s);

br.close();

the following output will be generated:

true
true
existing sub-dir data
line 2 of text
line 3 of text

My guess would be that it's the first line in the file: meaning "data in the existing sub-dir". Which is then followed by 2nd and 3rd line of text..

Regards,
Alex

[Henry Wong]

// here there is no print command for "existing sub-dir data"... then what is it... is it an explanation??? i just want to confirm....

Are you sure that it isn't part of the file that you are printing out?

Henry

[sonia jaswal]

yes it not the part of the file i am printing....