Routing output to different files.

[Funkymatt]

I have a vector of transactions. In this vector any given transaction (temp) is either a "D"eliver or an "E"xpect. If the transaction is a deliver I want to output the data into a deliver file and if it's an expect I want to output the data in an expect file.

I have a for loop where check one transaction at a time. This code is also in the for loop:

if (temp.strsafe_tran_type == "D&quot
{
BufferedWriter out = new BufferedWriter(new FileWriter(delFileName));
}
else if (temp.strsafe_tran_type == "E&quot
{
BufferedWriter out = new BufferedWriter(new FileWriter(expFileName));
}

//out.write Transaction member data
if (temp.strdepoId == null)
{
out.write("delivery = \"\"" + ","
}
else
{
out.write("delivery = \"" + temp.strdepoId.trim() + "\"," );
}
out.newLine();

When I complie I'm getting Error: C:\folder\SecWriteToFile.java(50): cannot resolve symbol: variable out in class SecWriteToFile

Is there something that I am not doing that I should or something that I'm doing that I shouldn't?

 

[sedj]

Two problems here ::

1) your "out" variable (BufferedWriter ) is declared inside an "if" statement - and hence the scope of this varibale is restricted to within side this.

2) You will not get successful results using "==" to test for value equality if String objects - its not Javascript ! Try the method .equals() instead.
So ::

BufferedWriter out = null;
if (temp.strsafe_tran_type.equals("D"))
{
     out = new BufferedWriter(new FileWriter(delFileName));
}
else if (temp.strsafe_tran_type.equals("E"))
{
     out = new BufferedWriter(new FileWriter(expFileName));
}

//.... and the rest

 

[Funkymatt]

outDel = new BufferedWriter(new FileWriter(delFileName));
outExp = new BufferedWriter(new FileWriter(expFileName));

//All transaction modifications performed below. Check the method for details.

//While the vector is not empty, keep looping
for( intCounter =0; intCounter < vecList.size() ; intCounter ++)
{
temp = (SecTxnMaster)vecList.get(intCounter);

if (temp.strsafe_tran_type.equalsIgnoreCase(&quot;D&quot)
{
out = outDel;
}
else if (temp.strsafe_tran_type.equalsIgnoreCase(&quot;E&quot)
{
out = outExp;
}
}



Thanks...that's what I ended up going with.