Displaying the contents of a text file into a Text Area...

[Gabriele]

Hi all, I have a servlet (written in java) that should read a TEXT file, put
all the content of the text file in a variable and then display it in the
text area like this:
<td><textarea rows=\"11\" cols=\"131\">" + TEXT + "</textarea></td>\n"

Now the problem is that I can only read a line from the text file:

FileReader fr = new FileReader(doc_path + doc_name + doc_ext);
BufferedReader myInput = new BufferedReader(fr);

TEXT = myInput.readLine();


HOW could I display the whole TEXT of the file ?

Thank in advance,
Gabriele

[mike m]

do something like this

StringBuffer buff = new StringBuffer();
String line;

while ((line = buff_read.readLine()) != null)
{ buff.append(line);
}

this will read the whole file... then

TEXT = buff.toString();

give it a try

"Gabriele" <ggdublin@yahoo.it> wrote:
>
>Hi all, I have a servlet (written in java) that should read a TEXT file,
put
>all the content of the text file in a variable and then display it in the
>text area like this:
><td><textarea rows=\"11\" cols=\"131\">" + TEXT + "

[Andrew]

Read the file into a StringBuffer:

FileReader fr = new FileReader(doc_path + doc_name + doc_ext);
BufferedReader myInput = new BufferedReader(fr);

String s;
StringBuffer b = new StringBuffer();
while ((s = myInput.readLine()) != null) {
b.append(s);
b.append("\n");
}

TEXT = b.toString();