/*	Punters Lounge JAVA programming course
 *	
 *	Lesson7b.java
 *
 *	Author	:	Erik Datapunter
 *	Date	:	12/jun/2004
 *
 *	Reading from a file and writing to a file
 *
 */

// import the library with Input Output objects
import java.io.*;

public class Lesson7b {
    public static void main(String[ ] arguments) throws Exception {

	// create a File object pointing to a physical file
	File FromFile = new File("in-file.txt");
	// create a FileReader object to use to read from the file
	FileReader ReadFile = new FileReader(FromFile);


	// create a File object pointing to a physical file
	File ToFile = new File("out-file.txt");
	// create a FileWriter object to use to write to the file
	FileWriter WriteFile = new FileWriter(ToFile);

	// an integer to read each character as a numerical value
	int ReadChar = 0;

	// while we have not yet reached the end of the file, read another character
	while ((ReadChar = ReadFile.read()) != -1)
	{
		// write the character to the output file
		WriteFile.write(ReadChar);
	}
	
	// when the file is read close the stream to both the input file and the output file
	ReadFile.close();
	WriteFile.close();

}
}