To read a text file ,You can use following way . First create a .txt you want to read , Then copy the path to your text file .
Ex: "C:\Users\Roshan\workspace\ReadingFromTextFile\WebContent\quotes.txt"
Then reaname it as , this way
"C:\\Users\\Roshan\\workspace\\ReadingFromTextFile\WebContent\\quotes.txt"
(Used \\ ,instead of \ )
In JSP file you create , Replace your text file location instead what I have used .
Below you can see text file I have used
The mind is everything. What you think you become......... Buddha
Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.....Napoleon Hill
I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse..........Florence Nightingale
I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed. ...............Michael Jordan
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do, so throw off the bowlines, sail away from safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, Dream, Discover. ........Mark Twain
Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it..........Charles Swindoll
The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.......Chinese Proverb
Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life...........Steve Jobs
Step 2 ..................................................
Then lets create JSP file .You can use following code for it .
<%@ page import ="java.io.*"%>
<%@ page language="java" contentType="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"
pageEncoding="ISO-8859-1"%>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head >
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
<title >Reading a Text File.............</title>
</head>
<body style="background-color:powderblue;">
<h2> Famous Quotes </h2>
<%
try
{
out.println("<ol>");
BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new FileReader("C:\\Users\\Roshan\\workspace\\ReadingFromTextFile\\WebContent\\quotes.txt"));
String str ;
while((str= in.readLine())!= null)
{
out.println("<li>"+ str + "</li>") ;
}
out.println("</ol>");
in.close();
}
catch(IOException ioe)
{
out.println("An exception occured " + ioe) ;
}
%>
</body>
</html>
Step 3................................................
Run your JSP file .You will able get a output like this .
