New line or Carriage Return through FileWriter

[johnt]

Hello,

I am using a java.io.FileWriter object to write some stuff to a given File object at runtime.

Everything works except I can't figure how to create new lines in the resulting file. All I am wirting in it appears stuck together, even if my String contain \n or \r characters.

I use java.io.FileWriter.write(String s) method.

Thanks for any help!

[Hasan]

Hi John,

You can wrap the FileWriter with a PrintWriter, and use println to write "lines" of text according to the platform it is running on.

[levent]

Hi John,

You can use Hasan's way.

But note that if you are on Windows, you need \r\n, both in that order. You can use the line.separator system property to get the proper separator in a generic way. That's what PrintWriter does internally.