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Java Local Development Environments Exploring Your IDE Clean up this mess

li guopeng
li guopeng
8,873 Points
Posted by li guopeng
li guopeng
8,873 Points

for writing output in a text file

I really don't know where is the problem, please help me.

Messy.java 
import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.PrintStream;
import java.util.Arrays;
import java.util.List;
public class Messy {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        System.out.println("one");
        System.out.println("two");
        System.out.println("three");
        System.out.println("four");
        System.out.println("five");

        // Please comment out this line and
        // this line as well with a hotkey that does multi-line commenting
        List<String> numberWords = Arrays.asList("six", "seven", "eight",
                "nine");
        for (String numberWord : numberWords) {
            System.out.println(numberWord);
            // Use the sout shortcut to write out numberWord;
        }
        try {
            PrintStream out = new PrintStream(new FileOutputStream(
                    "results.txt"));
            System.setOut(out);
        }

        catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }

    }
}
results.txt

2 Answers

MINJUN MOON
MINJUN MOON
7,723 Points
MINJUN MOON
MINJUN MOON
7,723 Points

You don't need to write text-file by Java, Just copy and paste your result from IntelliJ Idea console to 'results.txt' tab.

Enrique Munguía
Enrique Munguía
14,311 Points
Enrique Munguía
Enrique Munguía
14,311 Points

My guess is that you are calling the code that sets the standard output to a file after writing to standard output. Try the following:

try {
    PrintStream out = new PrintStream(new FileOutputStream("results.txt"));
    System.setOut(out);
}
catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
     e.printStackTrace();
 }

for (String numberWord : numberWords) {
      System.out.println(numberWord);
}
li guopeng
li guopeng
8,873 Points
li guopeng
li guopeng
8,873 Points

Thank you , but I still can't passe the test, It says the results don't appear to be counting properly,check you have one though nine in order