Writing to DAT or TXT file

[hunterbdb]

//------------------------------------------------------------------
...
String Username = "hunterbdb";
byte[] bite2 = new byte[100];

bite2 = username.getBytes();

FileOutputStream fos = new FileOutputStream
("C:\\Documents andSettings\\Administrator\\Desktop\\java projects\\notepads\\messenger_users.text", true);

fos.write(bite2,0,bite2.length);
...
//------------------------------------------------------------------

Hi, this is the code I'm using to write to a .txt file.


username is the String that I converted to bytes so that I can send through the FileoutputStream.

what i'm trying to do is append//add to the notepad file's text, however it is not working. Nothing is written to the file.

Am I doing something wrong?

Golden Brownies to the genius that helps me!

[Fubarable]

Perhaps you wish to use a FileWriter which was built for writing text to text files.

[Norm]

Does your code close the file after writing to it?

[hunterbdb]

yea, it closes the input output streams afterward


does Filewriter support abilities like "\n" to go to the next line and "\t" to tab?

[Norm]

I copied your code, added a close() and it works for me. The file is created the first time and is added to after that.

it is not working. Nothing is written to the file.

What does this mean?
What happens if you delete the file before the test? Is it created?
Is there anything in it?

What does the API doc say for FileWriter? It will write characters. \n and \t can be characters.

[hunterbdb]

I used a filewriter like said above^

it works.

thanks! I didnt even know that filewriter existed.

[Nicholas Jordan]

In general, try to stay with Writers for String data, but be aware that some file classes will not flush on close unless one places a close(); in the code as it is possible for the JVM to exit without writing all the data.

Best approach is to look through all the classes in java.io .... then do testing.

[Norm]

Using/relying on default actions will cause errors. Assuming that the system will take care of you is poor coding technique. Sometimes it does and some times not.