fixed-length-file

Is there any framework/library to help writing fixed length flat files in java? I want to write a collection of beans/entities into a flat file without worrying with convertions, padding, alignment, fillers, etcs For example, I'd like to parse a bean like: public class Entity{ String name = "name"; // length = 10; align left; fill with spaces Integer id = 123; // length = 5; align left; fill with spaces Integer serial = 321 // length = 5; align to right; fill with '0' Date register = new Date();// length = 8; convert to yyyyMMdd } ... into ... name 123 0032120110505 mikhas 5000 0122120110504

I have a fixed length file and would like to read its data into class objects. These objects will be further used to insert/update data in Database. Although it can be done with StreamReader, I am looking for a more sophisticated solution. FileHelper is another solution but I do not want to use an open source code in my program. Is there any other option? In the below link, one user has answered this similar question but it is not elaborated: https://codereview.stackexchange.com/questions/27782/how-to-read-fixed-width-data-fields-in-net I tried to implement this but I am unable to find Layout(

I'm doing the following spooling statement: SET VERIFY OFF SET FEEDBACK OFF SET HEADING OFF SET TRIMSPOOL ON SET TERM OFF SPOOL &pathRelations START scripts/relations.sql &parent SPOOL OFF SET TERM ON The scripts/relations.sql file contains a simple select statement. Unfortunately, the spooled file contains an empty line as the first one in the file. This line causes trouble in our framework. Of course I could get rid of these line through sed but ain't there a way to suppress its creation in the first place? Tagar SET NEWPAGE NONE is the correct answer. SET NEWPAGE 0 will cause a page feed,