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If you using Sun/IBM/Blackdown versions 1.1 or later, then this should work:

String filename = (conditional ? "file1" : "file2");
FileReader fr = new FileReader(filename);

Now file1 and file2 should be a string representation of the relative or absolute path the files in question

FileReader has a constructor FileReader(String fileName)


Denny



J.M. Taylor wrote:

>Greetings all,
>
>I need to evaluate a condition and decide whether to open file1 or file2 
>based on that condition.  Obviously I can do
>if (conditional) {
>  FileReader fr = new FileReader("file1");
>}
>else {
>  FileReader fr = new FileReader("file2");
>}
>
>However, with my undisciplined scripting language background I would like 
>to do something like
>
>File filename = (conditional ? "file1" : "file2");
>FileReader fr = new FileReader(filename);
>
>I can do the ternary operator if I declare filename as a String, but then 
>FileReader won't open it (the parameter must be a File object). 
>  new FileReader((File)filename) 
>doesn't work either.
>
>Nor does 
>FileReader fr = (conditional ? new FileReader("file1") : new 
>FileReader("file2"));
>
>Nor does 
>FileReader fr = new FileReader((conditional ? "file1" : "file2")); 
>
>I don't use Java very much, but I like to understand what's going on (and 
>why I can and can't do things from language to language) as much as 
>possible.  If anybody out there in aleland uses Java and can help me out, 
>I would greatly appreciate it.  I won't be offended if you tell me why I'm 
>being brain-dead, if that is in fact the case.
>
>Thanks
>jenn
>
>  
>
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