Appending to a file to write to

[Yourleader15]

Hi everyone, I am new to input/output streaming, and I just want to know how to append to a file.

Here is my code:

s = "this is my text"

public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
		         
	PrintWriter outputStream = null;

		         try {
		           
		             outputStream = new PrintWriter(new FileWriter("output.txt"));

		                 outputStream.println(s);
		         } finally {

		             if (outputStream != null) {
		                 outputStream.close();
		             }
		    }
		}

It does write to the output, but when I change the value of s and rerun the program, it just erases what was there before and writes on top of it. Is there a separate command for appending to a file and will it start on a new line?

also, how would I indicate the path, right now it just puts it in my project folder.

Thanks

[Junky]

The FileWriter class has more than one constructor!

[Yourleader15]

Alright, that was perfect and solved my one problem.

Now I'm just curious how to change the path of output.txt

[Junky]

The FileWriter class has more than one constructor!

What I'm alluding to is that you can use the constructor that takes a File object. Create the File object with the required path.