Question

i got the list of applications from cmd command using /output:D:\list.txt product get name,version. However when i try to retrieve the list using java the output has white spaces after each letter.

SAMPLE:

from text file

links

images

lists

when read in java

 l i n k s

 i m a g e s 

 l i s t s

is there a way to fix this problem?

i just used this code:

public void myreader() throws IOException {
 Path path = Paths.get("D:\\list.txt");
 Charset charset = Charset.forName("ISO-8859-1");
 try (BufferedReader reader = Files.newBufferedReader(path,charset)) {
      String line = null;
      while ((line = reader.readLine()) != null) {
           System.out.println(line);
      }
 }

Answer 1

This can be due to the encoding problem. Try using UTF-16 character set

BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(new FileInputStream(path), "UTF-16"));