Chapter 10, Problem 1E

Write a program that will write the Gettysburg Address to a text file. Place each sentence on a separate line of the file.

Program Plan Intro

Program plan:

• Include the required header files.
• Create a class “Gettysburg”.
  • Define main function.
    • Declare a variable “filename” with the value as file name.
    • In “try” block,
      • Create an object for “PrintWriter” class and pass the parameter as “filename”.
      • Write the contents into the file.
      • Close the file.
    • In “catch” block,
      • If the file not found in the folder, throw a “FileNotFoundException”.
    • Display the statement.

Explanation of Solution

 Program:

//import the header file

import java.io.*;

//definition of "Gettysburg" class

public class Gettysburg

{

    //definition of main method

    public static void main(String[] args)

    {

        //declare the variable and assign the filename

        String filename = "gettysburg.txt";

        //try block

        try

        {

/*create object for "PrintWriter" class and pass the file name*/

PrintWriter outputStream = new PrintWriter(filename);

            //write the contents to the file

outputStream.println("Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.");

outputStream.println("Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation, so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure.");

outputStream.println("We are met on a great battle-field of that war.");

outputStream.println("We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live.");

outputStream.println("It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.");

outputStream.println("But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate-we can not consecrate-we can not hallow-this ground.");

outputStream.println("The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract.");

outputStream.println("The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.");

outputStream.println("It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. ");

outputStream.println("It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us - that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion - that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain - that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom - and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.");

            //close the file

            outputStream.close();

        }

        //catch block

        catch(FileNotFoundException e)

        {

            //display the error message

System.out.println("Error opening the file " + filename);

            //exit the program

            System.exit(0);

        }

        //display the message

System.out.println("The file gettysburg.txt has been written.");

    }

}

Sample Output

Output:

The file gettysburg.txt has been written.

Output file:

Screenshot of “gettysburg.txt” text file