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/** Creates a file and returns the handle to it via a PrintWriter
object.<BR>
 * AutoFlush is set to TRUE.<BR>
 * Output to the file is done by calling "print" or "println".
 * @param fileName The name of the file to create
 * @return the handle to the file.<BR><BR>
*/
  public static PrintWriter createASCIIfile(String fileName)
  {
    PrintWriter aWriter = null;
    try
    {
      aWriter = new PrintWriter(new BufferedWriter(new
FileWriter(fileName)), true);
    }
    catch (IOException e)
    {
      System.out.println("IO Exception attempting to create file: '" +
fileName + "'");
    }

    return aWriter;
  }

/** This method opens a file and returns the handle to it via a
BufferedReader object
 * Example code for reading from the file follows:
 *    BufferedReader aReader = Util.openASCIIfile("FileToRead.Txt");
 *    if (aReader != null)
 *      try
 *      {
 *        String sLine = aReader.readLine();
 *        while (sLine != null)
 *        {
 *          System.out.println(sLine);
 *          sLine = aReader.readLine();
 *        }
 *        aReader.close();
 *      }
 *      catch (IOException e)
 *      {
 *        System.out.println("IO Exception reading file.");
 *      }
 * @param fileName The name of the file to be opened.
 * @return the handle to the BufferedReader file.<BR><BR>
*/
  public static BufferedReader openASCIIfile(String fileName)
  {
    BufferedReader aReader = null;
    try
    {
      aReader = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(fileName));
    }
    catch (IOException e)
    {
      System.out.println("IO Exception attempting to open file: '" +
fileName + "'");
    }
    return aReader;
  }

/** This method opens a random access file.
 * The following code excerpt shows how to read the file a line at a
time.
 *  String sLine = aFile.readLine();
 *  while (sLine != null) {
 *    System.out.print(sLine);
 *    sLine = aFile.readLine();
 *  }
 *  aFile.close();
 * @param fileName The name of the file to be opened.
 * @param isReadOnly Indicates if the file is to be opened as Read-Only
or not.
 * @return the handle to the RandomAccessFile.<BR><BR>
*/
  public static RandomAccessFile openRandomFile(String fileName, boolean
isReadOnly)
  {
    RandomAccessFile aFileHandle = null;
    String sReadWriteAttribute;
    if (isReadOnly)
      sReadWriteAttribute = "r";  // read only
    else
      sReadWriteAttribute = "rw"; // read/write

    try
    {
      aFileHandle = new RandomAccessFile(fileName, sReadWriteAttribute);

    }
    catch (IOException e)
    {
      System.out.println("IO Exception attempting to open file: '" +
fileName + "'");
    }

    return aFileHandle;
  }

  public static void saveGame(boolean bIsCurrentPlayerFinished)
  {
    java.io.PrintWriter aFile =
Util.createASCIIfile(SAVED_GAME_FILE_NAME);
    if (aFile != null)
    {
      aFile.println("[GAME]");
      aFile.println("iNbrOfPlayers=" + iNbrOfPlayers);
            // etc.
    }
    aFile.close();
  }
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Simon Murrell wrote:

> Hello
>
> Does anyone have a sample java source code of saving basic
> string/integer data to a flat file.
>
> Thanks
>   Simon