best programming language for file I/O?

[JMaster]

Of the following, what's the best programming language for file manipulation (simple text file input/output)?
Java, C, C++

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

Definitely not C. I don't know java and I haven't used file i/o too much in C++, but I know enough to know that they are infinitely better than C file i/o.

 

[Gibson12345]

I can't compare the three (I only "know" Java), but Java isn't too horrible. InputStream -> BufferedReader, loop for the entirety of the text file, and catch an IOException.

 

[Bulldog13]

gawk

 

[Nothinman]

perl

 

[Descartes]

There's no best language for anything as it wildly depends on what it is you are trying to do. Java is the simplest, imo, but it comes at an expense. You need to further qualify your needs before one can say what's best.

 

[JMaster]

Originally posted by: Descartes
There's no best language for anything as it wildly depends on what it is you are trying to do. Java is the simplest, imo, but it comes at an expense. You need to further qualify your needs before one can say what's best.

well basically, I'm inputting a file with assembly language code, then converting and outputting the corresponding hex numbers into a different file.

 

[JMaster]

bump? heh heh heh...

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

Whatever you know best or are most comfortable, out of Java and C++.

 

[oog]

out of your options, i would say Java is probably easiest. for the problem you described, perl.