created: 3/21/2006; revised: 08/20/2014, 06/18/2015, 08/22/2016, 02/16/25

Chapter 72 Fill in the Blanks

Instructions:   Each question has something left out. A blank represents the missing word(s). Think of the word or phrase that completes the sentence, then click on the buttons to see if you are correct.

1.   When a Scanner is connected to a disk file the characters from the file form an stream.

2.   The following connects a Scanner to the file myStuff.txt .

File    file = new File ( );
Scanner scan = new Scanner (  );

3.   When nextInt() scans text integers, integers should be delimited (separated) with or line separator characters.

4.   When using the nextInt() method of Scanner, may input integers have a leading +?

5.   When using the nextInt() method of Scanner, may input numbers have a leading -?

6.   If something goes wrong when Scanner tries to open a file for reading, an is thrown.

7.   If nextInt() encounters characters that cannot be converted into an int an is thrown.

8.   What value does hasNextInt() return if a Scanner has reached the end of a file?

9.   What is the name for a group of characters delimited by blanks or end of line characters?

What "next" method is used to determine if there is another such group in the input stream?

What method is used to read such a group from input stream?

10.   Complete the following program so that it asks the user for a file name, then opens that file as an input stream.

import java.util.Scanner;
class OpenInput
{
  public static void main ( String[] args ) 

  {
    Scanner user = new Scanner(  );

    System.out.print("Enter a filename: ");
    
    String fileName  = user..trim() ;
    
    File   file  = new File( ) ;
    
    Scanner disk = new Scanner(   );

    . . . . .

  }
}

11. The following connects a PrintWriter to the file myOutput.txt .

PrintWriter print = new PrintWriter ("");

12.   If you use PrintWriter to send output to a file that already exists what happens to the characters that are already in the file? They are with the new characters.

13.   If a PrintWriter attempts to open a file for which you do not have writing permission, an is thrown.

14.   If a main() method uses PrintWriter it should start out

public static void main ( String[] args )  

15.   At the end of writing a file with PrintWriter the file should be .

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