Re: Designation standard output as File type

Alan <jalanthomas@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
My question: To what do I set outFile (File type) to make the
output go to standard output (display)? System.out is of a type
PrintStream.

Right. The first line of javadoc for java.io.File makes this clear: "An
abstract representation of file and directory pathnames."

stdout is not a path name. It's an output stream.

public static void printData(File dir, File outFile)

You'll need to write a printData method that takes an OutputStream (or better,
a Writer). There is no path for stdout, so there is no File object that
represents it.
--
Mark Rafn dagon@xxxxxxxxx <http://www.dagon.net/>
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