In this article, we will cover how to read, write, modify, delete, and list files in Kotlin and compare them with Java equivalents. Table of contents 1. Reading a File in Kotlin 2. Writing to a File in Kotlin 3. Modifying a File in Kotlin 4. Deleting a File in Kotlin 5. Listing Files in […]
This article shows the difference between r, r+, w, w+, a and a+ in Python open() function. Table of contents 1. Difference between r, r+, w, w+, a and a+ 2. What is + means in open()? 3. Difference between r and r+ in open() 3.1 Read a file with r 3.2 Read and write […]
This article shows how to append a text file in Python. Table of contents 1. Append to a file 2. Difference between a and a+ 3. Download Source Code 4. References P.S Tested with Python 3.8 1. Append to a file The a creates a new file or opens an existing file for writing; the […]
This article shows how to write a text file in Python. Table of contents 1. Write to a file – open() and close() 2. Write to a file – with statement 3. Write multiple lines to a file 4. Working with two files 5. Find and replace in a file 6. Download Source Code 7. […]
This tutorial shows how to use the Streaming API for XML (StAX) writer to write data to an XML file. Table of contents 1. Write to XML (StAX Writer APIs) 2. Write to XML (StAX Cursor API – XMLStreamWriter) 3. Write to XML (StAX Iterator API – XMLEventWriter) 4. Write and pretty print XML content […]
This article shows you how to add, check and remove the byte order mark (BOM) from a UTF-8 file. The UTF-8 representation of the BOM is the byte sequence 0xEF, 0xBB, 0xBF (hexadecimal), at the beginning of the file. 1. Add BOM to a UTF-8 file 2. Check if a file contains UTF-8 BOM 3. […]
The newline character, also called end of line (EOL), line break, line feed, line separator or carriage return, is a control character to tell the end of a line of text, and the next character should start at a new line. On the Windows system, it is \r\n, on the Linux system, it is \n. […]
In Java, we can combine RandomAccessFile and FileChannel to lock a file before writing. LockFileAndWrite.java package com.mkyong; import java.io.File; import java.io.IOException; import java.io.RandomAccessFile; import java.nio.channels.FileLock; import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit; public class LockFileAndWrite { public static void main(String[] args) { writeFileWithLock(new File("D:\\server.log"), "mkyong"); } public static void writeFileWithLock(File file, String content) { // auto close and release the […]
In Java, there are many ways to write a String to a File. 1. Java 11 – Files.writeString Finally, a new method added in java.nio to save a String into a File easily. StringToFileJava11.java package com.mkyong; import java.io.IOException; import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets; import java.nio.file.Files; import java.nio.file.Paths; import java.nio.file.StandardOpenOption; public class StringToFileJava11 { public static void main(String[] args) […]
In Java, we can use Files.write to create and write to a file. String content = "…"; Path path = Paths.get("/home/mkyong/test.txt"); // string -> bytes Files.write(path, content.getBytes(StandardCharsets.UTF_8)); The Files.write also accepts an Iterable interface; it means this API can write a List to a file. List<String> list = Arrays.asList("a", "b", "c"); Files.write(path, list); Short History […]
In Java, we can use Files.readAllBytes to read a file. byte[] content = Files.readAllBytes(Paths.get("app.log")); System.out.println(new String(content)); 1. Text File A Java example to write and read a normal text file. FileExample1.java package com.mkyong.calculator; import java.io.IOException; import java.nio.charset.Charset; import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets; import java.nio.file.Files; import java.nio.file.Paths; import java.util.Arrays; import java.util.List; public class FileExample1 { public static void main(String[] […]
This article shows how to use the following Java APIs to append text to the end of a file. Files.write – Append a single line to a file, Java 7. Files.write – Append multiple lines to a file, Java 7, Java 8. Files.writeString – Java 11. FileWriter FileOutputStream FileUtils – Apache Commons IO. In Java, […]
In Java, we can use BufferedWriter to write content into a file. // jdk 7 try (FileWriter writer = new FileWriter("app.log"); BufferedWriter bw = new BufferedWriter(writer)) { bw.write(content); } catch (IOException e) { System.err.format("IOException: %s%n", e); } Note If possible, uses Files.write instead, one line, simple and nice. List<String> list = Arrays.asList("Line 1", "Line 2"); […]
The temporary file is just a regular file created on a predefined directory. In Java, we can use the NIO Files.write() to write data to a temporary file. // create a temporary file Path tempFile = Files.createTempFile(null, null); // Writes a string to the above temporary file Files.write(tempFile, "Hello World\n".getBytes(StandardCharsets.UTF_8)); // Append List<String> content = […]
In Java, FileOutputStream is a bytes stream class that’s used to handle raw binary data. To write the data to file, you have to convert the data into bytes and save it to file. See below full example. package com.mkyong.io; import java.io.File; import java.io.FileOutputStream; import java.io.IOException; public class WriteFileExample { public static void main(String[] args) […]
In Java, there are many ways to create and write to a file. Files.newBufferedWriter (Java 8) Files.write (Java 7) PrintWriter File.createNewFile Note I prefer the Java 7 nio Files.write to create and write to a file, because it has much cleaner code and auto close the opened resources. Files.write( Paths.get(fileName), data.getBytes(StandardCharsets.UTF_8)); 1. Java 8 Files.newBufferedWriter […]
This article shows a few ways to save a byte[] into a file. For JDK 1.7 and above, the NIO Files.write is the simplest solution to save byte[] to a file. // bytes = byte[] Path path = Paths.get("/path/file"); Files.write(path, bytes); FileOutputStream is the best alternative. try (FileOutputStream fos = new FileOutputStream("/path/file")) { fos.write(bytes); //fos.close […]
In Java, we can use Files.readAllBytes(path) to convert a File object into a byte[]. import java.nio.file.Files; import java.nio.file.Path; import java.nio.file.Paths; String filePath = "/path/to/file"; // file to byte[], Path byte[] bytes = Files.readAllBytes(Paths.get(filePath)); // file to byte[], File -> Path File file = new File(filePath); byte[] bytes = Files.readAllBytes(file.toPath()); P.S The NIO Files class is […]
In Java, the OutputStreamWriter accepts a charset to encode the character streams into byte streams. We can pass a StandardCharsets.UTF_8 into the OutputStreamWriter constructor to write data to a UTF-8 file. try (FileOutputStream fos = new FileOutputStream(file); OutputStreamWriter osw = new OutputStreamWriter(fos, StandardCharsets.UTF_8); BufferedWriter writer = new BufferedWriter(osw)) { writer.append(line); } In Java 7+, many […]
This article shows how to write data to a comma-separated values (CSV) file. Topics: OpenCSV – Write data to a CSV file Single class CSV writer – Write data to a CSV file Single class CSV writer – Unit Tests Note The RFC 4180 defines the format or definitions of a CSV file or text/csv […]
