Saving information to access later

Hello,

I'm rather new to both these forums and java. At the moment I'm trying to write a program to help with the day-to-day of my restaurant. Everything is going surprisingly well, except I'm having serious trouble getting my program to save figures and re-access them on another run of the program. What happens is java deletes and re-creates the .txt file I've stored my information in every time I run, then re-creates it.
The goal is to have this file store the 'double' amount I've saved for taxes each day separated by a blank space. Therefore I can get the program to access these numbers and add them up so I can see how much I've saved in total.
Any help on how I can do this will be greatly appreciated.

I'd need to see some of the code with how you have set up your File Reader and Writer.

Below is how I have it set up at the moment:

PrintStream diskCarry = new PrintStream("carryOverStore.txt");
Scanner diskCReader = new Scanner(new File("carryOverStore.txt"));

Then, in any given run, I write something to the 'carryOverStore.txt' file:

diskCarry.print(carryOver);

And I'm trying to use this to read the file in a later run:

if (diskCReader.hasNext()) {

prevTtl = diskCReader.nextDouble();

} else {

prevTtl = 0.0;

}

Without seeing the rest of your code, all I could come up with was a little example for how to receive the doubles from the file.

Code:

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public static double readFromFile(String fileName)
{
        double data = 0.0;
        try
        {
                File inFile = new File(fileName);
                Scanner getDouble = new Scanner(inFile);
                while(getDouble.hasNextDouble())
                {
                        data += getDouble.nextDouble();
                }
                getDouble.close();
        }
        catch(Exception e)
        {
                return data;
        }
        return data;
}

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It uses basic I/O to read each double from the file and keep a running total of the sum. If nothing is in the file it returns 0.0. Hopefully you can use this layout to get an idea for how to write information back into the file.