Using filereader and writer to copy jpg files

[Guest]

I'm trying to copy some files with the following code:

import java.io.FileReader;
import java.io.FileWriter;

public class File {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        System.out.println("file location:");
        String location = new java.util.Scanner(System.in).nextLine();
        System.out.println("file destination:");
        String name = new java.util.Scanner(System.in).nextLine();
        try {
            FileReader fr = new FileReader(location);
            FileWriter fw = new FileWriter(name, true);
            int m = fr.read();
            while (m != -1) {
                fw.write(m);
                fw.flush();
                m = fr.read();
            }
            fr.close();
            fw.close();
            System.out.println("done");
        } catch (java.io.IOException e) {
            System.out.println("file not found");
        }
    }
}

Using txt files works fine, but jpg files get messed up during the process.

Is there any way to get this to work? 

[Nuluvius]

16 minutes ago, tartarisfully said:

I'm trying to copy some files with the following code:

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Using txt files works fine, but jpg files get messed up during the process.

Is there any way to get this to work? 

Why are you trying to manually read it in and write it out again... 

Path source = Paths.get("somefile.test");
Path destination = Paths.get("somefile.test"); 
Files.copy(source, destination, StandardCopyOption.REPLACE_EXISTING);

 

[Guest]

I actually need to process the data after I get it from filereader, but the program doesn't seem to work even if I don't process the data. 

[espurritado]

if you want to do something with the image, you might want to actually open it as an image instead of as text.

Talking from experience, you are more than likely to have a corrupt image as a result since most image formats have redundancies and checks to make sure it's ok.

 

If you are still set on reading as a text file, there's a way to read the file as a stream of bytes, so you wont have the problem you are currently having (which is the charset)

[Guest]

Thank you for the advice!

Reading the file with fileinputstream seems to solve the problem