org.mathIT.util

Class Files

java.lang.Object

org.mathIT.util.Files

public class Files
extends Object

This class offers static methods for saving and loading files, for instance of texts or CSV-formatted tables.

Version:

1.0

Author:

Andreas de Vries

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
Files()

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
static StringBuilder	loadText(File file) Returns the text from the specified file as an object of StringBuilder.
static StringBuilder	loadTextFile() Returns the text from a file as an object of StringBuilder, the file being selected by a file chooser dialog.
static void	save(String fileName, CharSequence text) Saves the specified text to a file.
static void	save(String fileName, CharSequence text, boolean showDialog) Saves the specified text to a file.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

Files

public Files()

Method Detail

save

public static void save(String fileName,
                        CharSequence text)

Saves the specified text to a file. Here the text is a general character sequence. The file name specifies the name of the file, notably without the directory. The directory is given by the directory last visited by the user by a method of this class, or its home directory by default. This methods asks the user via a file chooser dialog where the file has to be saved.

Parameters:

fileName - the file name the file is to be saved to.

text - the text to be saved

See Also:

save(java.lang.String, java.lang.CharSequence, boolean)

save

public static void save(String fileName,
                        CharSequence text,
                        boolean showDialog)

Saves the specified text to a file. Here the text is a general character sequence. The file name specifies the name of the file, notably without the directory. The directory is given by the directory last visited by the user by a method of this class, or its home directory by default. If a file chooser dialog is to be shown to input the file from the user, the flag showDialog must be set to true.

Parameters:

fileName - the file name the file is to be saved to.

text - the text to be saved

showDialog - flag whether a FileChooser dialog is to be shown

loadTextFile

public static StringBuilder loadTextFile()

Returns the text from a file as an object of StringBuilder, the file being selected by a file chooser dialog.

Returns:

the text read from the file

loadText

public static StringBuilder loadText(File file)
                              throws FileNotFoundException

Returns the text from the specified file as an object of StringBuilder.

Parameters:

file - File to be loaded

Returns:

the text read from the file

Throws:

FileNotFoundException - if the specified file is not found