Add line at the beginning of text file - Java

Question

I have a text file that says:

Joan
Paul
Carren

What I would like to do is add Sean at the top of the list in java

I have come across another question similar to this on stackoverflow, however, that answer overwrites the first name.

What i have right now is:

if (outputFile.exists()) {

            try {

                RandomAccessFile output = new RandomAccessFile(outputFileName, "rw");

                output.seek(0);
                output.write(headerComments.getBytes());

                output.close();

            } catch (IOException e) {

                System.out.println("IO Exception");

            }

        }

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Answer 1

Create a file copy. And supposed the original file is original.

• write the line Sean to file copy.
• for each line in file original copy to file copy
• delete the file original

Answer 2

Similar question has been asked here Java. How to append text to top of file.txt but seem like not solved yet

You might want to try this:

BufferedReader read= new BufferedReader(new FileReader(yourfilename));
ArrayList list = new ArrayList();

String dataRow = read.readLine(); 
while (dataRow != null){
    list.add(dataRow);
    dataRow = read.readLine(); 
}

FileWriter writer = new FileWriter(yourfilename); //same as your file name above so that it will replace it
writer.append(headerComments);

for (int i = 0; i < list.size(); i++){
    writer.append(System.getProperty("line.separator"));
    writer.append(list.get(i));
}
writer.flush();
writer.close();