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Thread: reversing text in a file then putting it to a new file

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    Default reversing text in a file then putting it to a new file

    im having some trouble with this code the document im trying to reverse the text in is about 1000 pages in MS Word and when i use it the whole document doesnt get reversed it does so much then cuts off the rest

    anyone see why it would do that? the program works it just cuts off a lot of the document.

    import java.io.File;
    import java.io.FileInputStream;
    import java.io.InputStream;
    import java.io.InputStreamReader;
    import java.io.RandomAccessFile;
    import java.io.Reader;
    import java.nio.ByteBuffer;
    import java.nio.CharBuffer;
    import java.nio.charset.Charset;
    import java.nio.charset.CharsetEncoder;
     
    public class Test {
     
        public static void main(String... args) throws Exception {
     
            // Stub input. You need to gather it yourself from your sources.
            File file = new File("C:/Documents and Settings/jerky/Desktop/Item.doc");
            long length = file.length(); // Get it from HTTP request header using file upload API in question (Commons FileUpload?).
            String encoding = "UTF-8"; // Get it from HTTP request header using file upload API in question (Commons FileUpload?).
            InputStream content = new FileInputStream(file); // Get it from HTTP request body using file upload API in question (Commons FileUpload?).
     
            // Now the real job.
            Reader input = new InputStreamReader(content, encoding);
            RandomAccessFile output = new RandomAccessFile(new File("C:/Documents and Settings/jerky/Desktop/Item5.doc"), "rwd");
            CharsetEncoder encoder = Charset.forName(encoding).newEncoder();
     
            for (int data; (data = input.read()) != -1;) {
                ByteBuffer bytes = encoder.encode(CharBuffer.wrap(new char[] { (char) data }));
                length -= bytes.limit();
                output.seek(length);
                output.write(bytes.array());
            }
     
            // Should actually be done in finally.
            input.close();
            output.close();
        }
     
    }


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    Default Re: reversing text in a file then putting it to a new file

    How small a file does the program work with? Is there a file size that it first fails with?
    How large a file is a 1000 pages in MS Word document?

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    Default Re: reversing text in a file then putting it to a new file

    not sure this is the only file i have tried it with

    and not sure on that but i think its like 5k lines or more easily

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    Default Re: reversing text in a file then putting it to a new file

    Why are you trying to reverse a doc file?
    The results will be garbage. No program will be able to read it.

    Have you tried debugging the code by adding printlns to report progress as it reads the bytes of the file?

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    Default Re: reversing text in a file then putting it to a new file

    ah it comes out ok with the stuff that it does reverse it just stops half way through the file or so...i looked at how many lines and its 50,854 lines

    where should i put the println? in the loop? and when it reads?

    could it be that it stops if it hits a character that it cant read?

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    Default Re: reversing text in a file then putting it to a new file

    Why are you trying to reverse a doc file?
    The results will be garbage. No program will be able to read it.

    How many bytes in the input file?
    Have you tried it with a smaller text file? It worked for me for a 2K text file.

    How do you know it stops half way through the file? What do you look at to determine that?

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    Default Re: reversing text in a file then putting it to a new file

    well its a dat file but i put it in .doc because i wasnt sure if it would read as .dat

    i just tried with a file that is half the size and it worked also

    i look at the text at the beginning of the file and the end of the file and then i match it up where it is in the starting file...i clean some of it and then try again and it gets closer to doing the whole thing each time but still far off

    it started off as a 1.8mb size file now i have it down to 1.5mb

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    Default Re: reversing text in a file then putting it to a new file

    What does a dat file contain? Text or binary? The extension has no meaning in the I/O classes.

    The UTF-8 CharsetEncoding will not work with binary data like what is in a .doc file.

    I'd recommend you work with a very small file that you can easily verify the results with.
    For good testing, I'd write a simple program that writes out a file with 256 byte values from 00 to 0XFF that you can use as input to your program.

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    Default Re: reversing text in a file then putting it to a new file

    ahhhh here we go i get this exception

    Exception in thread "main" java.nio.charset.MalformedInputException: Input length = 1
    at java.nio.charset.CoderResult.throwException(Unknow n Source)
    at java.nio.charset.CharsetEncoder.encode(Unknown Source)
    at com.stackoverflow.q2725897.Test.main(Test.java:30)

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    Default Re: reversing text in a file then putting it to a new file

    Do you have any answers for post #8?

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    Default Re: reversing text in a file then putting it to a new file

    sorry i didnt see

    i tried to save the file as .txt with ANSI encoding now and it says it has unicode in it im not that familiar with what unicode is though

    i think thats what ill do write a simple program like you said and use a small file to test cause this is making me crazy haha

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    Default Re: reversing text in a file then putting it to a new file

    i tried to save the file as .txt with ANSI encoding now
    What is the contents of the file? text or ???
    How are you trying to create/save the file? What program did you use?

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    Default Re: reversing text in a file then putting it to a new file

    has some text and some weird chars i dont know what they are

    i opened with notepad and saved it as .txt

    here is a bit of whats in the file

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    rebaS norIF24 [[[[[[[[[[[[AAAAa 

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    Default Re: reversing text in a file then putting it to a new file

    Sorry, I have no idea where you got this file from or what is in the file or what you are trying to do with it or what you expect to happen.

    I guess I'll let you continue to play with whatever it is.

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    Default Re: reversing text in a file then putting it to a new file

    there is text mixed in there i can delete all the garbage easy i just need it to reverse all the text thats left but it still like 25k lines of text lol

    the file is from a game i play and its an Item list of all the items in the game with a description of what all the items are. i am trying to get the names and descriptions to make a bunch of guides without having to write the 50k lines of info lol

    thanks for all your help ill follow your advice and make the simple program to play around with it

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