The TXT file type is primarily associated with 'Text File'. Open in Notepad, WordPad, or many other programs designated as text editors. A true text file will be pure ASCII text with no formatting.
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How do i write to a text file using java?
I have been using the "Learning Java 2nd Edtion" book to try make my java application write my input to a text file called properties. I have manipulated the text book example into my own code but still having problems trying to get it to work. I…
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Cannot get user input to write to my text file in C# (error says path cannot be accessed because it is already in use)
I am at a loss as to what more I can do here. I have attempted to use namespace StreamReadWrite but that did not work. I have tried to use file.Close(); in different areas but the most that would happen is I'd get "Success" written in the console,…
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Infinite loop when passing the name of a text file to more than one function
I'm trying to pass the name of a text file to two different functions so that they can operate on the file separately. The first loop works fine and produces the result that I expect, but the second function gets stuck in an infinite loop.
Here is…
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Python script not creating a text file when run in cmd
I'm trying to create a python script (with very limited knowledge) that will create a text document on the desktop of whoever runs the program. The section I have that should actually create the text file looks like so:
save_path =…
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Decoding weird symbols in a text file
One of my text files has become seemingly encrypted with strange symbols such as
���,
ל�9I,
I'm wondering if there's a way to decode this? I've looked around for different ways and thought I was getting close a few times but I never found…
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Find number of occurrences and number of lines the value is in on a text file?
The scope of the problem is this:
Search an array of string type for a value of string type that was read in from a text file and print the number of occurrences and print the number of lines that keyword occurs in.
The expected output is:
Keyword:…
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Is there a function similar to .replace() in Dominate library for Python?
I want to add HTML tags to text taken from a .txt file and then save as HTML. I'm trying to find any instances of a particular word, then 'replace' it with the same word inside an anchor tag.
Something like this:
import dominate
from dominate.tags…
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Reading numbers from file to multidimensional arrays
I have integer numbers in a text file to be assigned to an array C[5][100].
My data is in this format:
17 40 35 24 50 15 31 38 48 18 16 44
41 10 26 50 48 20 24 12 48 24 34 39
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I am trying the code below but the error I get is this:…
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How to move data onto a new line below header
I have looked through the 'similar questions' here and didn't see one that was close.
I have a text file and headers that I write in Python, but when I open and then write data to the file it starts off immediately after the header, when I want the…
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reading each line of a text file preceded by line numbers
demoFile=open("lambpoem.txt","r")
for i in demoFile:
print(i)
how do I modify the code in order for it to include the line number before the text in that line?
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/storage/emulated/0/Notes/ (No such file or directory)?
I tried this link:
How to create text file and insert data to that file on Android
But, it says "No such file or directory". Can anybody help me please? Thanks in advance!
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C++ getline for text file
Pretty simple really, I hope. I have opened a text file, and I want it to read the first line with getline. I want it to take all the integers in that line, separated by commas, and add them together to be stored in a variable. However, I'm not…
Conner McClellan
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Need help in finding where to start looking to fix my code. When reading large files it gets stuck
I'm trying to read a large text file of about 7516 lines of text. When I read a smaller file (9 lines) the program works fine. But with the large file it seems to get caught in something and just keeps running without anything actually…
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Clearing JTextfields to write multiple data to txt file
excuse the probably simple question (and the terrible layout methods). The code I have successfully writes inputted data to a txt file and on clicking "submit" closes the input window, leaving the "menu" open, with options to add a user (this code)…
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How to Clear variables from JTextFields without closing whole program?
I have created a text file in which to store some variables which are taken from text fields. But in order to submit new variables to this text file, I need to close my program and reopen it. The dispose(); command closes the JFrame taking me to my…
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