Condition 2 not passing

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Reading a file

Java Core, Level 3, Lesson 11

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I've also tried the following:

public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
       // write your code here
       BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(System.in));
       InputStream fileReader = new FileInputStream(reader.readLine());
       BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(fileReader));

       while (br.readLine() != null){
           System.out.println(br.readLine());
       }
       reader.close();
       fileReader.close();
       br.close();
   }

Still saying there's too few lines

package com.codegym.task.task13.task1318; import java.io.*; import java.util.Scanner; /* Reading a file */ public class Solution { public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException { // write your code here BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(System.in)); InputStream fileReader = new FileInputStream(reader.readLine()); int data = fileReader.read(); while (data != -1){ System.out.print(data); data = fileReader.read(); } reader.close(); fileReader.close(); } }

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Guadalupe Gagnon

Level 37 , Tampa, United States

10 December 2019, 15:33

Your first bit of code is only outputting bytes. Let's say the file has one word, "codegym", which should be the output, but that code would output: 99111100101103121109 Which is Ascii as detailed below: c - 99 o -111 d - 100 e - 101 g - 103 y - 121 m - 109 The second code shared is reading two lines from the file for every one that is output. Every time that .readLine() is called, it reads the next line in the file: while (br.readLine() != null){ // this is reading one line from the file System.out.println(br.readLine()); // this is reading another line from the file } To fix the first bit of code all that you have to do is convert the bytes to characters before outputting. To fix the second bit of code use a variable for to save the readLine() value, check it, and then output. This is what I do and is quite useful:

String line;
while((line = in.readLine()) != null)
   System.out.println(line);

Anthony Chalk

Level 30 , London, United Kingdom

10 December 2019, 15:32

passed with:

BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(System.in));
        FileInputStream fileReader = new FileInputStream(reader.readLine());
        BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(fileReader));

        String line;

        while((line = in.readLine()) != null)
        {
            System.out.println(line);
        }
        reader.close();
        in.close();
        fileReader.close();

Thomas Sixberry

Level 16 , Rochester Hills, United States

9 February 2020, 19:41

The extra BufferedReader was throwing me off. I definitely didn't have that last one in there and it had me scratching my head.