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File Handling in Java: User Input & I/O

The document provides instructions for 4 programming activities: 1) Write a program to create a file called data.txt and write a user's name to it using PrintWriter or BufferedWriter. 2) Write a program to check if data.txt exists, and if not, display a message. If it does, prompt the user to delete it. 3) Create an ArrayList, add 3 Strings, and use ObjectOutputStream to write it to data.bin. 4) Use ObjectInputStream to load the ArrayList from data.bin and display the Strings.

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File Handling in Java: User Input & I/O

The document provides instructions for 4 programming activities: 1) Write a program to create a file called data.txt and write a user's name to it using PrintWriter or BufferedWriter. 2) Write a program to check if data.txt exists, and if not, display a message. If it does, prompt the user to delete it. 3) Create an ArrayList, add 3 Strings, and use ObjectOutputStream to write it to data.bin. 4) Use ObjectInputStream to load the ArrayList from data.bin and display the Strings.

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Programming 1

Tutorial 11
Activity 1

Task
Write a program to create a file called [Link] (located at the program's
working directory). Ask the user to enter his/her name. Write it to the file.

Instructions
The shortest way to write a String to a file is using PrintWriter. Use the
println() method from PrintWriter to do so.

The alternative way is to use BufferedWriter, which requires you to first


create a FileWriter object. Use the write() method from the BufferedWriter
class.

Either way, do not forget to call close() on the PrintWriter or BufferedWriter


object to save data to file.

Activity 2

Task
Write a program to check if the file called [Link] exists or not. If it
doesn't exist, show the message: The file does not exist! on the screen. If it
does, ask the user: Do you want to delete the file (yes/no)?. If the user
types yes, delete the file and show the message: File was deleted!.

(*) Note: To create the file for deleting, run the program in Activity 1.

Activity 3

Task
Create an ArrayList of Strings. Add 3 Strings to it. Use ObjectOutputStream to
write the ArrayList object to a file called [Link]. Refer to Example 4 from
Lecture 9 for an example.
Activity 4

Task

Use ObjectInputStream to load an ArrayList of Strings from the file [Link]


produced by Activity 3 and display the Strings on the screen (if failed, check
the correctness of Activity 3). Refer to Example 5 from Lecture 9 for an
example.

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