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Thread: can someone give a code example of deleting data to a text file?

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    can someone give a code example of deleting data to a text file in GUI?


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    Default Re: can someone give a code example of deleting data to a text file?

    What have you tried? What examples have you found searching the Internet that you don't understand or need help modifying for your use?

    You give us a broken example, and we'll help you fix it.

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    Default Re: can someone give a code example of deleting data to a text file?

    here's my code
    i want to delete a data to a txtfile that i typed to my textfield..pls help me ty..
    word = ("");
    word = inputOutputField.getText().trim();
    try{
    BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new FileReader("test.txt"));
    String line = null;

    while ((line = br.readLine()) != null) {
    if (!line.trim().equals(word)) {

    }
    br.close();
    }
    }catch (IOException E) {
    System.out.println("Error" + E);

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    Default Re: can someone give a code example of deleting data to a text file?

    Please post your code in code tags. You can learn how here.

    Comment your code as or before you write it.

    Your code:

    identifies the desired word to delete and stores it in the variable word.
    reads a file, "test.txt", a line at a time
    if the line read is NOT the same as the word to be deleted, do nothing
    otherwise, do nothing

    What you need to do is replace the "do nothings" above with what you'd like to do. For example, if you want to delete the line that contains "word", then don't save that line to a collection (an array?) of lines read. Otherwise, save the line to the collection:
    while ( ( line = br.readLine() ) != null )
    {
        // check for lines NOT equal to the target word
        if ( !line.trim().equals( word ) )
        {
            // when found, store the line to a collection like an array
        }
        else
        {
            // no code required to skip saving the line
        }
    }
    When ready, write the resulting collection of saved lines back to the file from which they came, effectively deleting the words that were not saved to the collection.

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