Java Write Text File Line by Line Example

How to overwrite a line in a .txt file using Java?

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API's used

The replaceAll() method of the String class accepts two strings representing a regular expression and a replacement String and replaces the matched values with given String.

The java.util class (constructor) accepts a File, InputStream, Path and, String objects, reads all the primitive data types and Strings (from the given source) token by token using regular expressions. To read various datatypes from the source using the nextXXX() methods provided.

The StringBuffer class is a mutable alternative to String, after instantiating this class you can add data to it using the append() method.

Procedure

To overwrite a particular line of a file −

Read the contents of a file to String −

• Instantiate the File class.

• Instantiate the Scanner class passing the file as parameter to its constructor.

• Create an empty StringBuffer object.

• add the contents of the file line by line to the StringBuffer object using the append() method.

• Convert the StringBuffer to String using the toString() method.

• Close the Scanner object.

Invoke the replaceAll() method on the obtained string passing the line to be replaced (old line) and replacement line (new line) as parameters.

Rewrite the file contents −

• Instantiate the FileWriter class.

• Add the results of the replaceAll() method the FileWriter object using the append() method.

• Push the added data to the file using the flush() method.

Example

import java.io.File; import java.io.FileNotFoundException; import java.io.FileWriter; import java.io.IOException; import java.util.Scanner; public class OverwriteLine {    public static void main(String args[]) throws IOException {       //Instantiating the File class       String filePath = "D://input.txt";       //Instantiating the Scanner class to read the file       Scanner sc = new Scanner(new File(filePath));       //instantiating the StringBuffer class       StringBuffer buffer = new StringBuffer();       //Reading lines of the file and appending them to StringBuffer       while (sc.hasNextLine()) {          buffer.append(sc.nextLine()+System.lineSeparator());       }       String fileContents = buffer.toString();       System.out.println("Contents of the file: "+fileContents);       //closing the Scanner object       sc.close();       String oldLine = "No preconditions and no impediments. Simply Easy Learning!";       String newLine = "Enjoy the free content";       //Replacing the old line with new line       fileContents = fileContents.replaceAll(oldLine, newLine);       //instantiating the FileWriter class       FileWriter writer = new FileWriter(filePath);       System.out.println("");       System.out.println("new data: "+fileContents);       writer.append(fileContents);       writer.flush();    } }

Output

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Updated on 14-Oct-2019 07:55:25

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