Random lowercase letter

I need to generate a random lowercase letters to be written to file.

Here is the code I have so far:

Code:

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public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
     
      Random r = new Random();
     
      // Write data to file.     
      PrintWriter data = new PrintWriter("Ex19.txt");
      for (int i = 0; i < 50; i++)
        data.print((char)((r.nextInt(26) + 'a')) + " ");
      data.close();     
}

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This code is writing weird characters to file. E.g.:

⁶⁺⁵⁳⁰⁦⁩⁰⁣⁲⁨⁷⁢⁰⁸⁦⁢⁹⁷⁩⁶⁷⁢⁡⁹⁴⁶⁤⁺⁺⁢⁹⁧⁴ⁱ⁢⁤⁡⁨⁳ ⁦⁳⁡ⁱ⁡

What is throwing me off is that changing the code to

Code:

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data.print((r.nextInt(26) + 'a') + " ");

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appears to write the correct range of numbers to file (i.e. between 97 & 122).

Can someone please help me?

I don't know. This code seems to work OK for me:

Code:

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      Random r = new Random();

      // Write data to file.
      // PrintWriter data = new PrintWriter("Ex19.txt");
      for (int i = 0; i < 50; i++) {
        System.out.print((char) ((r.nextInt(26) + 'a')) + " ");
      }
      System.out.println();

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edit:
and then when I tried your code with the PrintWriter, I got this as an output:
o q c v k r a h s o r v k z z k y j h l a r t w h f i z f d h b d q f i c o b w t y z n g i j u c t

So it looks good to me! Are you sure you're looking in the correct file?

After reading this text file back into the program and getting legitimate characters, I opened the text file using WordPad (instead of Notepad) and the characters are ok!

Must be some weird Windows thing....

http://oi55.tinypic.com/2qvrwq1.jpg

Good deal! Keep up the good work!