Write java file string

Example: destination. Modern Guava alternative to deprecated Files. A word to the wise - this will create a new file if it isn't there, but will overwrite the characters of the existing file if it is.

If the new data is smaller, that will mean you probably create a corrupted file. Ask me how I know! Ok, how do you know? Just use Files. It will work as expected. Use Apache Commons IO api. Anirban Chakrabarti Anirban Chakrabarti 5 5 silver badges 8 8 bronze badges.

Use this, it is very readable: import java. Files; import java. Paths; Files. WRITE ;. BDL Ran Adler Ran Adler 3, 26 26 silver badges 27 27 bronze badges. It's also a copy of an existing answer. In case if you need create text file based on one single string: import java. IOException; import java. So this is a potential issue. Use string. Sean H. Worthington Sean H. Worthington 1, 14 14 silver badges 9 9 bronze badges.

You could do this: import java. Mostafa Rezaei Mostafa Rezaei 1 1 gold badge 5 5 silver badges 12 12 bronze badges. Using org. FileUtils: FileUtils. BullyWiiPlaza Info GoYun. Info 1, 12 12 silver badges 12 12 bronze badges. If you only care about pushing one block of text to file, this will overwrite it each time. Eric Leschinski k 87 87 gold badges silver badges bronze badges.

Eric Leschinski : thank you for making my answer more professional i also assumed this was exactly what the OP wanted since this is what actually most people wants,just dump the text and replace it — bhathiya-perera.

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I landed on this page in order to create a mini text appender to a file. So it's good to speak to the entire audience rather than the OP after the OP has moved on. Jobin Mathew Jobin Mathew 1 1 silver badge 7 7 bronze badges. While this code snippet may be the solution, including an explanation really helps to improve the quality of your post. Remember that you are answering the question for readers in the future, and those people might not know the reasons for your code suggestion.

Please, improve your answer adding the proper error case handling. John Doe John Doe. Yes, JanusTroelsen is right, better use The try-with-resources statement docs. Brad Parks Brad Parks 58k 59 59 gold badges silver badges bronze badges. Please add proper error case handling closing all opened resources and propogating exceptions — Boris Brodski. The Overflow Blog. Podcast Helping communities build their own LTE networks. Podcast Making Agile work for data science.

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This is necessary because it throws an IOException if an error occurs if the file cannot be created for some reason :. Run Example ».

In the following example, we use the FileWriter class together with its write method to write some text to the file we created in the example above. Note that when you are done writing to the file, you should close it with the close method:. We just launched W3Schools videos.

Get certified by completing a course today! Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. A B A B 3, 1 1 gold badge 18 18 silver badges 23 23 bronze badges. Do you mean like? Peter Lawrey Peter Lawrey k 73 73 gold badges silver badges bronze badges. Although it is an old thread - which source is the FileUtils you are referring to?

If you are using Java 7, you can uses try-with-resources to shorten method considerably: import java. Paul Vargas Paul Vargas The Overflow Blog. Podcast Helping communities build their own LTE networks. Podcast Making Agile work for data science. Featured on Meta. New post summary designs on greatest hits now, everywhere else eventually.

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