[java] Java File - Open A File And Write To It

Suggestions:

  • Create a File object that refers to the already existing file on disk.
  • Use a FileWriter object, and use the constructor that takes the File object and a boolean, the latter if true would allow appending text into the File if it exists.
  • Then initialize a PrintWriter passing in the FileWriter into its constructor.
  • Then call println(...) on your PrintWriter, writing your new text into the file.
  • As always, close your resources (the PrintWriter) when you are done with it.
  • As always, don't ignore exceptions but rather catch and handle them.
  • The close() of the PrintWriter should be in the try's finally block.

e.g.,

  PrintWriter pw = null;

  try {
     File file = new File("fubars.txt");
     FileWriter fw = new FileWriter(file, true);
     pw = new PrintWriter(fw);
     pw.println("Fubars rule!");
  } catch (IOException e) {
     e.printStackTrace();
  } finally {
     if (pw != null) {
        pw.close();
     }
  }

Easy, no?