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basia808
Reading files through Java's Scanner class
Nov 17th, 2009, 12:21am  
Hi,
I'm trying to read a text file from using the Java Scanner class, except no matter where I stick the text file Processing tells me it can't find it. It's kind of infuriating.

It should be in the same directory as the pde file referencing it, right? Or failing that, maybe in the data folder. I've tried everything I can think of, and I have no idea why it doesn't work. Help, please?
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PhiLho 
Re: Reading files through Java's Scanner class
Reply #1 - Nov 17th, 2009, 1:49am  
If you use Java functions to access files, you must use the same magic as Processing to access files in data folder.
See the PApplet's developer's reference: you have the dataPath() and dataFile() functions to convert a file name to a full path to data folder.
Otherwise Java will use the current path, which seems to be in Processing's binary install folder.
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