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Article #15030Re: PrintWriter.println(Object) - any equivalent read(Object)?
From: Tor Iver Wilhelmsen
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 00:00
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 00:00
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"Lois Neo" <slneo@cybergal.com> writes: > I have a problem with reading an object from a text file, previously written > using the PrintWriter.println(MyObject) method. This calls the object's toString() method and prints that. Not very useful. > I'm not sure how I can read > it back from the file. The string produced? Use bufferedReader.readLine(). > ObjectInputStream seems to work only for ObjectOutputStream written > objects. I tried reading the object as String, but then dunno if > there's any way I can convert it back to MyObject? No, there isn't, unless you override toString() to produce a representation you can use for constructing the object.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f74b3,1470b9b9a4394f04 X-Google-Attributes: gidf74b3,public From: Tor Iver Wilhelmsen <tor.wilhelmsen@sds.no> Subject: Re: PrintWriter.println(Object) - any equivalent read(Object)? Date: 1999/07/13 Message-ID: <ug12sapdy.fsf@sds.no> X-Deja-AN: 500445838 Sender: towi@SDSA1761 References: <7meq5t$sqd10@forums.borland.com> Organization: Another Netscape Collabra Server User Newsgroups: borland.public.jbuilder.java.language