Writing to a file

[counterfox]

Hi i'm doing an assignment where I got to write data to a text file. I can do this but I'm doing the method which calls this in a while loop and when a String is written to a file needs to be saved, each time the data is written to file it keeps overwriting the line before, my codes below:

String data = "this is the data I want to write on this method call";
String filename = "save.sav";
try {
FileWriter writer = new FileWriter(filename);
writer.write(data);
writer.close();
}
catch (IOException e){}

This is in a method call but whenever I call the method again the old data is overwritten. Is there a way to change this so it saves the text on a new line?

Thanks.

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FileWriter (Java Platform SE 6)

[Allspark]

The error I see in your code is that you're declaring the new output file in the loop. So every time the loop iterates, it will create a new file with the same name and will therefore replace the previous one. In order for it to work you have to declare your output file outside of the loop and then just print to the output file within the loop. So for example:

String data = "this is the data I want to write on this method call";
String filename = "save.sav";
[COLOR="Red"]FileWriter writer = new FileWriter(filename);[/COLOR]
try {
writer.write(data);
}
[COLOR="Red"]writer.close();[/COLOR]
catch (IOException e){}

So this declares the file outside of the loop, executes the loop and writes the data to the output file, exits the loop and then closes the output file.

[counterfox]

Thanks for your reply I didnt see I was doing that,

Thanks again for your help =]