Jun Araki’s Blog

Recently I regularly use Java in some classes and my research. In particular, I often implement a similar code to read a text file for the purpose of some text processing. So I will attach the trivial code to this post for future reference. I confirmed that it works with Java 1.6.0_16.

import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.FileReader;
import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
import java.io.IOException;

class SomeClass {
    public static void readFromFile(String filename) {
        BufferedReader fin = null;

        try {
            fin = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(filename));
            String line = null;
            while ((line = fin.readLine()) != null) {
                // Do something
            }
        } catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        } catch (IOException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        } catch (Exception e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        } finally {
            try {
                if (fin != null) fin.close();
            } catch (Exception e) {
                e.printStackTrace();
            }
        }
    }

    public static void main(String args[]) {
        readFromFile("sample.txt");
    }
}

Incidentally I have used BufferedReader rather than BufferedInputStream simply because BufferedReader is more suitable to the text processing that I need to do right now.

I have spent some time implementing a small script with Python 2.6.2 to help my trivial work: concerting CSV to HTML (more precisely a CSV file to an HTML table). The CSV format for its input depends on what the csv module in Python specifies. The code is pretty straightforward:

#!/usr/bin/python

# csv2html.py
# CSV to HTML Converter

import csv
import sys

table_indent_num = 2
tr_indent_num = 4
td_indent_num = 6
white_space = " "

def main():
    csv_reader = csv.reader(open(sys.argv[1]))
    table_indent = white_space * table_indent_num
    tr_indent = white_space * tr_indent_num
    td_indent = white_space * td_indent_num

    print table_indent + "<table>"
    for i, row in enumerate(csv_reader):
        print tr_indent + "<tr>"

        # Uncomment the following two lines if you don't
        # want a column for indexes
        if i == 0: print td_indent + "<th>#</th>"
        else: print td_indent + "<td>" + str(i) + "</td>"

        # Assume that the first line is a header
        for column in row:
            if i == 0: print td_indent + "<th>" + column + "</th>"
            else: print td_indent + "<td>" + column + "</td>"

        print tr_indent + "</tr>"

    print table_indent + "</table>"

if __name__ == "__main__":
    argn = len(sys.argv)
    if argn != 2:
        print "Usage: python csv2html.py <CSV file>"
        exit(1)

    main()

An example of usage is as follows:

$ more sample.csv
title1,title2,title3
"test11",test12,test13
test21,"test,22",test23
$ python csv2html.py sample.csv > sample.html
$ more sample.html
  <table>
    <tr>
      <th>#</th>
      <th>title1</th>
      <th>title2</th>
      <th>title3</th>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>1</td>
      <td>test11</td>
      <td>test12</td>
      <td>test13</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>2</td>
      <td>test21</td>
      <td>test,22</td>
      <td>test23</td>
    </tr>
  </table>