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help with java file

  Asked By: Daisy    Date: Nov 06    Category: Java    Views: 624
  

is there any way to write to a file at the beginning of the file so
that everytime something is written previously goes under it
automaticaly.

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Answer #1    Answered By: Roderick King     Answered On: Nov 06

I also faced the same problem when i was doing some project , around
an year back & i didn,t found any answer for that, but what i did, i
stored the contents of file  in byte array say 'a', create new byte
array say 'b', which contains the new String at the first and then
append the 'a' to it (but it is very costly (slow) process).
The code looks like this...

I forgot the exact syntax, sorry for that...

byte a[] = fileinputstream.read();//copy the contents of file in a
byte array

byte s[] = "The new String to be added at the top".getBytes();
byte b[] = new byte[s.length()+a.length];
int i = 0;
for(i = 0; i < s.length(); i++){
b[i] = s[i];
}
for(int j = 0; j < a.length(); j++){
b[i+j] = a[i];
}

fileoutputstream.write(b);

 
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