Re: Reading a text file

From:

bruce <bruceaj@bellsouth.net>

Newsgroups:

comp.lang.java.programmer

Date:

Fri, 11 Feb 2011 20:53:45 -0800 (PST)

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On Feb 11, 11:46 pm, bruce <bruc...@bellsouth.net> wrote:

On Feb 11, 9:26 pm, bruce <bruc...@bellsouth.net> wrote:

I am reading a file with

    BufferedReader reader = null;
    StringBuffer contents = new StringBuffer();
    while ((text = reader.readLine()) != null) {
                contents.append(text)
                    .append(System.getProperty(
                        "line.separator"));
                }

This code reads the file fine. My problem is that when I put the dat=

into a text, it is displayed with a space character before ever
character. (bruce => b r u c e)

What am I doing wrong??

Thanks...

Bruce

I have just learned something. I don't know what it is but it appears
that not all files give this space problem. I have loaded several
other .txt files with no problem. So, I have some more testing to do
before I can define the problem.

Thanks..

Bruce

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