[java] Java Replace Line In Text File

I was going to answer this question. Then I saw it get marked as a duplicate of this question, after I'd written the code, so I am going to post my solution here.

Keeping in mind that you have to re-write the text file. First I read the entire file, and store it in a string. Then I store each line as a index of a string array, ex line one = array index 0. I then edit the index corresponding to the line that you wish to edit. Once this is done I concatenate all the strings in the array into a single string. Then I write the new string into the file, which writes over the old content. Don't worry about losing your old content as it has been written again with the edit. below is the code I used.

public class App {

public static void main(String[] args) {

    String file = "file.txt";
    String newLineContent = "Hello my name is bob";
    int lineToBeEdited = 3;

    ChangeLineInFile changeFile = new ChangeLineInFile();
    changeFile.changeALineInATextFile(file, newLineContent, lineToBeEdited);



}

}

And the class.

import java.io.BufferedWriter;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.FileReader;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.OutputStreamWriter;
import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException;
import java.io.Writer;

public class ChangeLineInFile {

public void changeALineInATextFile(String fileName, String newLine, int lineNumber) {
        String content = new String();
        String editedContent = new String();
        content = readFile(fileName);
        editedContent = editLineInContent(content, newLine, lineNumber);
        writeToFile(fileName, editedContent);

    }

private static int numberOfLinesInFile(String content) {
    int numberOfLines = 0;
    int index = 0;
    int lastIndex = 0;

    lastIndex = content.length() - 1;

    while (true) {

        if (content.charAt(index) == '\n') {
            numberOfLines++;

        }

        if (index == lastIndex) {
            numberOfLines = numberOfLines + 1;
            break;
        }
        index++;

    }

    return numberOfLines;
}

private static String[] turnFileIntoArrayOfStrings(String content, int lines) {
    String[] array = new String[lines];
    int index = 0;
    int tempInt = 0;
    int startIndext = 0;
    int lastIndex = content.length() - 1;

    while (true) {

        if (content.charAt(index) == '\n') {
            tempInt++;

            String temp2 = new String();
            for (int i = 0; i < index - startIndext; i++) {
                temp2 += content.charAt(startIndext + i);
            }
            startIndext = index;
            array[tempInt - 1] = temp2;

        }

        if (index == lastIndex) {

            tempInt++;

            String temp2 = new String();
            for (int i = 0; i < index - startIndext + 1; i++) {
                temp2 += content.charAt(startIndext + i);
            }
            array[tempInt - 1] = temp2;

            break;
        }
        index++;

    }

    return array;
}

private static String editLineInContent(String content, String newLine, int line) {

    int lineNumber = 0;
    lineNumber = numberOfLinesInFile(content);

    String[] lines = new String[lineNumber];
    lines = turnFileIntoArrayOfStrings(content, lineNumber);

    if (line != 1) {
        lines[line - 1] = "\n" + newLine;
    } else {
        lines[line - 1] = newLine;
    }
    content = new String();

    for (int i = 0; i < lineNumber; i++) {
        content += lines[i];
    }

    return content;
}

private static void writeToFile(String file, String content) {

    try (Writer writer = new BufferedWriter(new OutputStreamWriter(new FileOutputStream(file), "utf-8"))) {
        writer.write(content);
    } catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e) {
        // TODO Auto-generated catch block
        e.printStackTrace();
    } catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
        // TODO Auto-generated catch block
        e.printStackTrace();
    } catch (IOException e) {
        // TODO Auto-generated catch block
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
}

private static String readFile(String filename) {
    String content = null;
    File file = new File(filename);
    FileReader reader = null;
    try {
        reader = new FileReader(file);
        char[] chars = new char[(int) file.length()];
        reader.read(chars);
        content = new String(chars);
        reader.close();
    } catch (IOException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    } finally {
        if (reader != null) {
            try {
                reader.close();
            } catch (IOException e) {
                // TODO Auto-generated catch block
                e.printStackTrace();
            }
        }
    }
    return content;
}

}

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