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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 Mon, 12 Dec 2011 10:45:56 -0500, Eric Sosman
<esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> wrote:

>On 12/12/2011 10:15 AM, Thee Chicago Wolf [MVP] wrote:
>> [...]  But as I've
>> asked other, using outFile.println yields me output in my file that
>> looks like so:
>>
>> file1.txt
>> <space>
>> file2.txt
>> <space>
>> file3.txt
>> <space>
>> <space>
>>
>> When I use outFile.write, I get:
>>
>> file1.txt
>> file2.txt
>> file3.txt
>> <space>
>>
>> I'm obviously going to stick with the cleaner looking output than the
>> one with extra spaces in it. But do you know why it's doing the extra
>> spacing with println? Realistically, it *should* just like the output
>> for what .write does. Any idea?
>
>     Debugging code that I can't see is an uncertain business, but
>I'll bet you did something like
>
>	outFile.println(filename + "\n");
>
>instead of just
>
>	outFile.println(filename);

Yes, Nigel pointed it out to me. .println with adding the \n will make
it work correctly. I'll fix it up. Thanks.

- 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
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    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
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      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
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