Problem : How you can write line by line data to a text file?

Contents

1. 1 Program :
   1. 1.1 Step 1 - Coding
   2. 1.2 Step 2 - Deployment
   3. 1.3 Step 3 - Testing
   4. 1.4 Output
2. 2 FAQ
   1. 2.1 What is FileWriter?
   2. 2.2 What is PrintWriter?

Solution :  java.io.FileWriter creates/open an existing file and with help of its write()method you can write charcter by charcter to text file.   java.io.PrintWriter takes a line and convert it into charters and pass charcters to java.io.FileWriter .

Program :

Step 1 - Coding

Create a text file c:/sunilos/WriteFile.java  and copy below contents.

import java.io.FileWriter;
import java.io.PrintWriter;
import java.io.Writer;

/**
 * A program to write in a file.
 */
public class WriteFile {

    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception{
                
                   //File writer takes chars and convert into bytes and write to a file 
        FileWriter writer = new FileWriter("c:/sunilos/sunilos-write.txt");
                  
                   // PrintWriter takes lines and convert that into charters and gives to FileWriter 
        PrintWriter printWriter = new PrintWriter(writer);
        for(int i=0;i<5;i++){
        printWriter.println(i +" : Line");
    }
    printWriter.close();
    writer.close();
    System.out.println("DONE");
}
}

Step 2 - Deployment

1. Create a folder 'c:\sunilos'. 
2. Create or copy WriteFile.java  into 'c:\sunilos' folder.
3. Open your command prompt and go to  'c:\sunilos'
   
4. Compile WriteFile.java with help of 
• javac WriteFile.java command.  Command will create WriteFile.class file in the same folder.
  
5. Congratulations!! your Java program is ready to serve.

Step 3 - Testing

1. Make sure you are on Command Prompt under c:\sunilos directory
   
2. Now start your java program from command prompt with help of
   
• java -cp . com.sunilos.io.WirteFile command.
3. Now to check your data open text file.
   
• c:\sunilos\sunilos-write.txt
  

Output

DONE

FAQ

What is FileWriter?

• FileWriter is meant for writing streams of characters.

What is PrintWriter?

• PrintWriter print formatted representations of objects to a text-output stream.
• This class implements all of the print methods found in PrintStream.
• It does not contain methods for writing raw bytes, for which a program should use unencoded byte streams.

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