Thread: Problem with replacing substring in a file

Hello,

I'm writing a piece of code with should modify my file. I have a string :

Sat Jan 25 21:00:00 CET 25557feee

And I would like to change only one variable,but I'm not able to do it. Can you help me?

Here is the code:

  private void modify(String[] tokens)
    {
            if (tokens.length < 3)
        {
           // System.out.println("Illegal arguments");
            System.out.println("modify [id] [field] [newValue] --> Modify the event with the given id and set the value of the specified field to [newValue].");
            System.out.println();
            return;
        }
        // TODO: Add additional input validity checks
        String id = tokens[0];
        String field = tokens[1];
        String newValue = tokens[2];
        // TODO: Modify the given event locally as well as remote
 
        System.out.print("Your choice was: " + choose);
 
//        if(choose.equals(id)){
//            System.out.println("You choosed : " + choose);
//        }
        File file = new File("D:\\....\\events\\" + id + ".events.txt");
 
 
 
 
        try {
            BufferedReader bufferedReader = null;
            FileInputStream fileInputStream = null;
            InputStreamReader inputStreamReader =null;
 
 
 
            try {
 
                fileInputStream = new FileInputStream(file);
                inputStreamReader = new InputStreamReader(fileInputStream);
                bufferedReader = new BufferedReader(inputStreamReader);
 
            } catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
                e.printStackTrace();  //To change body of catch statement use File | Settings | File Templates.
            }
 
            System.out.println("Searching for :" + Changefield + " in file: " + file.getName());
 
 
 
            while((field = bufferedReader.readLine()) != null) {
                int index = field.indexOf(Changefield);
 
                 System.out.println("Position of " + Changefield + "is at the position: " + index);
                 System.out.println(Changefield.replaceFirst(Changefield, newValue));
                 System.out.println("Old value " + Changefield + " new value : " + newValue);
 
 
            }
            Path from = Paths.get(String.valueOf(file));
            Path to = Paths.get("D:\\.....\\events\\" + id + ".events-Temp.txt");
            CopyOption[] option = new CopyOption[]{
                    StandardCopyOption.REPLACE_EXISTING,
                    StandardCopyOption.COPY_ATTRIBUTES
            };
            for (Path path : Files.copy(from, to, option)) {
 
            }
            try{
 
                BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(file));
                FileWriter fileWriter1 = new FileWriter(file);
                writer = new BufferedWriter(fileWriter1);
 
               String line;
               while (( line = bufferedReader.readLine()) !=null)  {
                    System.out.print(line);
 
                }
 
 
 
            //    writer.flush();
 
        }catch(Exception e){
            System.err.println("Error: " + e.getMessage());
        }finally {
            try{
                writer.close();
            }catch(IOException e){
                System.err.println("Error " + e.getMessage());
            }
        }
 
 
        } catch (IOException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();  //To change body of catch statement use File | Settings | File Templates.
        }
    }

Tank you for your help

I cant change only one variable, when I change the old value to a new value and then try to save it. The whole file gets overwritten and nly the new value stays. The old values disappear

Duplicate?

This seems the same as your other thread. If so, please return to that one and tell us how using the String.split() method worked out. Please show your updated code there. (Although I guess you're showing pretty much the same code here as you showed there.)