Question

i am trying to export my project to .jar or .exe. This works fine expect for external text files.

Here my code:

    InputStream  is = new FileInputStream("MYPATH/start.txt");
    Reader r = new InputStreamReader(is);

  while ((my_char = r.read()) != -1) {
    text_list.add(String.valueOf((char) my_char));
  } 

How do i have to set “MYPATH” so my jar-File works with text for other PCs?

Answer 1

Perhaps you are looking for

FileReader r = new FileReader(mypath + "/start.txt");
// or
FileReader r = new FileReader(new File(mypath, "start.txt"));

I wouldn’t try creating a List of all the bytes as Strings. Often reading a line at a time is more useful.

BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(new File(mypath, "start.txt")));
for(String line; (line = br.readLine()) != null; ) {
    // process line
}