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Re: Easy way to read the contants of a folder/directory and output contents to file?

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>On 12/12/11 15:12, Thee Chicago Wolf [MVP] wrote:
>>> On 12/12/11 14:42, Thee Chicago Wolf [MVP] wrote:
>>>
>>>> outFile.write(String.valueOf(list[i]+"\n"));
>>>
>>> Do you something against the PrintWriter.println(String) method?
>>
>> Well, in some code I'd written previous, I used .write instead of
>> .println. When I actually tried .println, the output I got was as
>> such:
>>
>> file1.txt
>> <space>
>> file2.txt
>> <space>
>> file3.txt
>> <space>
>> <space>
>>
>> Not so pretty right?
>
>> when using .write, I get:
>>
>> file1.txt
>> file2.txt
>> file3.txt
>> <space>
>>
>> Which is exactly what I want. I asked this of another person as well.
>> I naturally though println would give me nice clean output as in my
>> second example. But it didn't. When I used .write, it did. So, I'm
>> sticking with .write. Do you have any idea why println would give me
>> such spaced output?
>
>If you append a "\n" to the filename that is what you'll get. println() 
>prints a line of output with a line terminator. Hence there is no need 
>to append a "\n". That saves both processing time (concatenating Strings 
>is relatively slow) and unnecessary coding.

Got it and yes, it is now obvious to me. I'll fix it up. Thanks for
that.

- Thee Chicago Wolf [MVP]

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Easy way to read the contants of a folder/directory and output contents to file? "Thee Chicago Wolf (MVP)" <.@.> - 2011-12-11 21:06 -0600
  Re: Easy way to read the contants of a folder/directory and output contents to file? "John B. Matthews" <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2011-12-11 23:08 -0500
    Re: Easy way to read the contants of a folder/directory and output contents to file? "Thee Chicago Wolf [MVP]" <.@.> - 2011-12-12 08:42 -0600
      Re: Easy way to read the contants of a folder/directory and output contents to file? Nigel Wade <nmw-news@ion.le.ac.uk> - 2011-12-12 14:49 +0000
        Re: Easy way to read the contants of a folder/directory and output contents to file? "Thee Chicago Wolf [MVP]" <.@.> - 2011-12-12 09:12 -0600
          Re: Easy way to read the contants of a folder/directory and output contents to file? Nigel Wade <nmw-news@ion.le.ac.uk> - 2011-12-12 15:44 +0000
            Re: Easy way to read the contants of a folder/directory and output contents to file? "Thee Chicago Wolf [MVP]" <.@.> - 2011-12-12 09:51 -0600
      Re: Easy way to read the contants of a folder/directory and output contents to file? Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2011-12-12 10:03 -0500
        Re: Easy way to read the contants of a folder/directory and output contents to file? "Thee Chicago Wolf [MVP]" <.@.> - 2011-12-12 09:15 -0600
          Re: Easy way to read the contants of a folder/directory and output contents to file? Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2011-12-12 10:45 -0500
            Re: Easy way to read the contants of a folder/directory and output contents to file? "Thee Chicago Wolf [MVP]" <.@.> - 2011-12-12 09:52 -0600
  Re: Easy way to read the contants of a folder/directory and output contents to file? Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-12-12 01:02 -0800
    Re: Easy way to read the contants of a folder/directory and output contents to file? "Thee Chicago Wolf [MVP]" <.@.> - 2011-12-12 09:19 -0600
  Re: Easy way to read the contants of a folder/directory and output contents to file? "Thee Chicago Wolf [MVP]" <.@.> - 2011-12-12 09:08 -0600
    Re: Easy way to read the contants of a folder/directory and output contents to file? Jukka Lahtinen <jtfjdehf@hotmail.com.invalid> - 2011-12-12 18:24 +0200
      Re: Easy way to read the contants of a folder/directory and output contents to file? "Thee Chicago Wolf [MVP]" <.@.> - 2011-12-12 10:54 -0600
        Re: Easy way to read the contants of a folder/directory and output contents to file? Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2011-12-12 12:40 -0500
          Re: Easy way to read the contants of a folder/directory and output contents to file? "Thee Chicago Wolf [MVP]" <.@.> - 2011-12-12 12:03 -0600
          Re: Easy way to read the contants of a folder/directory and output contents to file? Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2011-12-12 13:04 -0500

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