Please help me out here

consider the following program segment..

FileWriter f=new FileWriter(args[0]);
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f.write('\n');

The above given segment is from one of my programs.whenever I use f.write('\n') to go to a new line in the output file,the function is printing a small square box in the file.But,I want it to move the control to a new line so that whatever character it writes in the file thereafter writes it in a new line.This is happening for all the escape sequences used.Can anybody give me a solution for this problem?Reply soon.Thanq....

"\n" is not a platform independent way of writing a new line to a file. Try using:

Code:

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f.write(System.getProperty("line.separator"));

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Here are some relevant javadocs:

BufferedWriter.html#newLine()
System.html#getProperties()

Thanks for the reply.What about using other escape sequences like '\b'(Whitespace)?

The problem is not escape sequences! They are same on all platforms. The problem is the new line for files! As far as i remember it was \r\n (Linux i guess) in one platform and \n (Windows i guess) in the other one.