Reading and writing files

**r035198x** · Oct 30 '07, 06:13 AM

Originally posted by aaljumah

i am naive with java programming. I would like create a program to read a set of text files, analyze them and create an output in an xml format or at least to another one txt file.

here is how one of the text file looks like:

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the equal marks signal a beginning and an ending of a single issue in the text files. I would like for example to seperate the subject, issue # ...etc and write them to an xml file or to another txt file could anyone help please?

Thank you so much in adance.

1.) Use thread titles that describe your problem
2.) What have you done so far? Have you looked at the FileReader and or Scanner classes to see what file reading methods are available?

**aaljumah** · Oct 30 '07, 06:33 AM

Originally posted by r035198x

1.) Use thread titles that describe your problem
2.) What have you done so far? Have you looked at the FileReader and or Scanner classes to see what file reading methods are available?

No. Could you help please?

**r035198x** · Oct 30 '07, 06:38 AM

Originally posted by aaljumah

No. Could you help please?

Read this thread, try some code on your own and post back if you get any problems.