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Re: how to read back the lines printed out to the console?

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On 1/30/12 12:03 PM, frame wrote:
> Hi:
>
> We have an existing Java program, which prints out a lot of message
> using System.out.println() method to the console. There are about 500
> those calls in the code. We hope to add one more feature: besides
> print out to the console as it is doing now, we also want to store
> those messages in a text file. So the message will be in two places:
> one place -- the console -- is shown the message progressively as the
> program is running; another place -- a text file -- is created at the
> end of the program.
>
> Since there are about 500 calls in the code, we don't want to add a
> duplicated printing method at every printing place. I am thinking to
> let the program run as usal, printing out all the messages to the
> console, then before the program ends, having a method reading in
> every line on the console, which was printed out previously. I just
> don't know how to achieve that.
>
> Thank you very much.
>
Perhaps System.out isn't the way to go. You might want to look into 
logging frameworks, such as commons logging or log4j. They provide that 
kind of flexibility and more.

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how to read back the lines printed out to the console? frame <xsli2@yahoo.com> - 2012-01-30 12:03 -0800
  Re: how to read back the lines printed out to the console? glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2012-01-30 20:18 +0000
    Re: how to read back the lines printed out to the console? Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-01-30 20:42 -0800
  Re: how to read back the lines printed out to the console? Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> - 2012-01-30 14:18 -0800
    Re: how to read back the lines printed out to the console? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-01-30 19:34 -0500
  Re: how to read back the lines printed out to the console? Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2012-01-30 14:37 -0800
    Re: how to read back the lines printed out to the console? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-01-30 20:08 -0500
      Re: how to read back the lines printed out to the console? Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2012-01-30 17:18 -0800
        Re: how to read back the lines printed out to the console? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-01-30 21:00 -0500
  Re: how to read back the lines printed out to the console? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-01-30 19:33 -0500
    Re: how to read back the lines printed out to the console? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-01-30 19:35 -0500
    Re: how to read back the lines printed out to the console? frame <xsli2@yahoo.com> - 2012-01-31 10:09 -0800
      Re: how to read back the lines printed out to the console? Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2012-01-31 11:11 -0800
        Re: how to read back the lines printed out to the console? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-01-31 20:39 -0500
        Re: how to read back the lines printed out to the console? frame <xsli2@yahoo.com> - 2012-02-01 06:01 -0800
          Re: how to read back the lines printed out to the console? Ian Shef <invalid@avoiding.spam> - 2012-02-01 19:15 +0000
            Re: how to read back the lines printed out to the console? frame <xsli2@yahoo.com> - 2012-02-01 12:59 -0800
              Re: how to read back the lines printed out to the console? Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2012-02-01 14:00 -0800
          Re: how to read back the lines printed out to the console? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-02-01 19:27 -0500
  Re: how to read back the lines printed out to the console? frame <xsli2@yahoo.com> - 2012-01-30 18:49 -0800
    Re: how to read back the lines printed out to the console? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-01-30 21:56 -0500
    Re: how to read back the lines printed out to the console? Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2012-01-30 19:06 -0800
    Re: how to read back the lines printed out to the console? Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-01-30 20:46 -0800
    Re: how to read back the lines printed out to the console? Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2012-01-30 21:18 -0800
      Re: how to read back the lines printed out to the console? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-01-31 20:36 -0500
    Re: how to read back the lines printed out to the console? Jukka Lahtinen <jtfjdehf@hotmail.com.invalid> - 2012-01-31 10:18 +0200
      Re: how to read back the lines printed out to the console? Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2012-01-31 11:15 -0800
    Re: how to read back the lines printed out to the console? bugbear <bugbear@trim_papermule.co.uk_trim> - 2012-01-31 09:50 +0000
      Re: how to read back the lines printed out to the console? Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2012-01-31 11:17 -0800

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