read output of txt file has white spaces

Question

i got the list of applications from cmd command using /output:D:\\list.txt product get name,version. However when i try to retrieve the list using java the output has white spac

Answer 1

Looks like you read a UTF-16 encoded file.

Give a hint to your Reader - pass "UTF-16", instead of "ISO-8859-1".

Answer 2

This can be due to the encoding problem. Try using UTF-16 character set

BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(new FileInputStream(path), "UTF-16"));

Answer 3

Have you tried the FileReader?

FileReader fileReader;
try {
    fileReader = new FileReader( "D:\\list.txt" );
    BufferedReader bufferedReader = new BufferedReader( fileReader ); 
    String line; 
    while( ( line = bufferedReader.readLine() ) != null )
    { 
        System.out.println( line ); 
    }
    fileReader.close();
} catch ( IOException except ) {
    System.err.println( except.getStackTrace()[0] );
}

Im not shure where your problem is coming from, but you may take the FileReader for such instructions.