Question on reseting file position

[iSeriesCodePoet]

How do I reset the file position to the beginning of the file? Mike Wills
RPG Programmer (but learning Java)

"I am bad at math because God forgot to include math.h into my program!"

 

[wushutwist]

What class are you using to read the file? For example, if you were using the

RandomAccessFile

class to read your file then you could always call the

seek

method and pass 0 as the offset to place the file-pointer at the beginning of the file.

 

[iSeriesCodePoet]

I am using FileReader. Is this what you are looking for. I am quite new to the OO and Java world. Mike Wills
RPG Programmer (but learning Java)

"I am bad at math because God forgot to include math.h into my program!"

 

[wushutwist]

Have you tried calling the

reset

method? I can't remember if this is supported in

InputStreamReader

which is the class that

FileReader

inherits from. It will throw an

IOException

if it is not supported, otherwise it should reset the file-pointer to the beginning of the file.

 

[iSeriesCodePoet]

I tried that, it crashed on me when I did. I saw that in there and thought it made sense. How do you open a file again after you close it? I thought of trying that. Mike Wills
RPG Programmer (but learning Java)

"I am bad at math because God forgot to include math.h into my program!"

 

[wushutwist]

Instead of hacking it... switch to using

RandomAccessFile

to read your files.

FileReader

is really intended to just read straight through a file, whereas

RandomAccessFile

is meant to allow the developer to jump around the file at his/her whim.

 

[iSeriesCodePoet]

This is what I ended up doing. I close the file. Then using the same object name I redefined the file, in essense I am reopening it. If you want to see code, I can post it later. Mike Wills
RPG Programmer (but learning Java)

"I am bad at math because God forgot to include math.h into my program!"