Issue with Reading and Writing to a File

Question

Hello all,
I'm having trouble when I run the following example;
import java.io.FileReader;
import java.io.FileWriter;
import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.PrintWriter;
import java.io.IOException;
public class ReadWriteTextFile {
    private static void doReadWriteTextFile() {
        try {
            // input/output file names
            String inputFileName  = "README_InputFile.txt";
            String outputFileName = "ReadWriteTextFile.out";
            // Create FileReader Object
            FileReader inputFileReader   = new FileReader(inputFileName);
            FileWriter outputFileReader  = new FileWriter(outputFileName);
            // Create Buffered/PrintWriter Objects
            BufferedReader inputStream   = new BufferedReader(inputFileReader);
            PrintWriter    outputStream  = new PrintWriter(outputFileReader);
            outputStream.println("+---------- Testing output to a file ----------+");
            outputStream.println();
            String inLine = null;
            while ((inLine = inputStream.readLine()) != null) {
                outputStream.println(inLine);
            outputStream.println();
            outputStream.println("+---------- Testing output to a file ----------+");
            outputStream.close();
            inputStream.close();
        } catch (IOException e) {
            System.out.println("IOException:");
            e.printStackTrace();
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        doReadWriteTextFile();
}Im getting the error
java.io.FileNotFoundException: README_InputFile.txt (The system cannot find the file specified)However the file README_InputFile.txt is definately in the same folder as the class file. So why is this not working?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Jaz

Answer 1

Sorry you've lost me. All I get are error messages
when I try to compile that statement. What am I
missing?I don't know, it should work:
import java.io.*;
public class Test {
public static void main(String[] args) throws
IOException {
System.out.println(new
File(".").getCanonicalPath());
Sorry I forgot to add the "throws IOException" bit. It works and told me that the path is;
C:\Documents and Settings\Jaz\workspace\Tutorial
I've amended the code so it now looks like this;
String inputFileName  = "C:/Documents and Settings/Jaz/workspace/TutorialREADME_InputFile.out";
            String outputFileName = "C:/Documents and Settings/Jaz/workspace/TutorialReadWriteTextFile.out";but I still get the error below even though the files are present in that directory;
IOException:
java.io.FileNotFoundException: C:\Documents and Settings\Jaz\workspace\TutorialREADME_InputFile.out (The system cannot find the file specified)