BufferedWriter

[Karthika]

Hi,
I want to write a date to a file using BufferedWriter. But the BufferedWriter's write function does not support Date data type. I cannot convert that to string also as I get an error for that. I like to know how to solve this problem.

[JosAH]

Hi,
I want to write a date to a file using BufferedWriter. But the BufferedWriter's write function does not support Date data type. I cannot convert that to string also as I get an error for that. I like to know how to solve this problem.

What is the exception/compilation problem? Have you tried to write date.toString()?

kind regards,

Jos

[Tolls]

Or, if you want to control the format of the output, a SimpleDateFormat?

[JosAH]

Or, if you want to control the format of the output, a SimpleDateFormat?

If I were the OP I'd wrap the BufferedWriter in a PrintWriter, print dates, times and other formatted stuff and be done with it.

kind regards,

Jos

[Tolls]

Depends if they want to learn the format codes or not.
Not that they're particularly difficult.
But if it's just a date an SDF might be simpler?
Who knows, without a spec.

[iluxa]

Easiest solution - do a

long millis = date.getTime()

and write millis to the data file. The when reading it back, do

Date date = new Date(millis);

[Tolls]

OK if it doesn't need to be human readble.