Unfortunately, that didn't solve my problem. Any other help?
P.S. I tried that tutorial in normal java and it worked, but not in
android.
On Feb 11, 5:51 pm, Mark Murphy <mmur...@commonsware.com> wrote:
> David wrote:
> > Hey guys, I need some help with reading the contents of a file. I have
> > a plaintext file called 'test' in my app's files/ directory. I have
> > this code to read it:
>
> > public String loadFile(String filename)
> > {
> > try
> > {
> > FileInputStream fis = openFileInput(filename);
> > InputStreamReader in = new InputStreamReader
> > (fis);
> > String contents = "";
> > in.read(contents.toCharArray());
> > return contents;
> > }
> > catch(FileNotFoundException e)
> > {
> > e.printStackTrace();
> > return null;
> > } catch (IOException e) {
> > e.printStackTrace();
> > return null;
> > }
> > }
>
> > I pass the filename to the function like this:
> > String contents = "";
> > contents = loadFile('test');
>
> > But every time it returns nothing. I have tested it and it doesn't go
> > into one of the catch es, but it apparently reads nothing from the
> > file. What am I doing wrong?
>
> Phooey. Let's try that again...
>
> Try this example:
>
> http://www.exampledepot.com/egs/java.io/ReadLinesFromFile.html
>
> Except that the first line will need to use an InputStreamReader on the
> InputStream you get from openFileInput().
>
> --
> Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy)http://commonsware.com
> _The Busy Coder's Guide to Android Development_ Version 2.0 Published!
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