problem !! input on GUI to a file

[javanew]

Please help me,,, what i want to do is writing on a text area by keyboard,,, and printing everything on a file,, but the problem is that the file is not empty and containing some text,,, so IT JUST DELETES WHATS ON THE FILE , !!

submit = new JButton("Submit");
				 
				submit.addActionListener(new ActionListener(){
					public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e){
						PrintWriter pr;
						string2 = area2.getText(); //copys everything on text area and puts it on string2
						
						File file = new File("C://Users//Desktop//aaa.txt");
						try {
							pr  = new PrintWriter(file);
							pr.print(string2); //it prints on file but after deleting my previous text  on file~!!
							pr.close(); 
							
						} catch (FileNotFoundException e1) {
							
							e1.printStackTrace();
						}
						
						
					}
				});

[Fubarable]

You might want to use a FileWriter rather than a PrintWriter object. If you check the FileWriter API, you'll see that it has a constructor that takes a String for a file name and a boolean, the latter if true lets you append to a file.

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