1. FileWritter writes to the file
FileWritter, character stream writes characters to the file. By default, it replaces all existing content with new content, however, when specifying a true (boolean) value as the second parameter of the FileWritter constructor, it retains the existing content and appends the new content in The end of the file.
1. Replace all existing content with new content.
new FileWriter(file); 2. Keep existing content and new content attached to the end of the file.
The code copy is as follows:
new FileWriter(file,true);
Append file example
A text file named "javaio-appendfile.txt" and contains the following content.
ABC Hello adds new content new FileWriter(file,true)
The code copy is as follows:
package com.yiibai.file;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileWriter;
import java.io.BufferedWriter;
import java.io.IOException;
public class AppendToFileExample
{
public static void main( String[] args )
{
try{
String data = " This content will append to the end of the file";
File file =new File("javaio-appendfile.txt");
//if file doesn't exists, then create it
if(!file.exists()){
file.createNewFile();
}
//true = append file
FileWriter fileWritter = new FileWriter(file.getName(),true);
BufferedWriter bufferWritter = new BufferedWriter(fileWritter);
bufferWritter.write(data);
bufferWritter.close();
System.out.println("Done");
}catch(IOException e){
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
}
result
Now, the content of the text file "javaio-appendfile.txt" is updated as follows:
ABC Hello This content will append to the end of the file
2. BufferedWriter writes to the file
BufferedWriter is a character stream class that processes character data. Unlike byte streams (data is converted into bytes), you can write strings, arrays, or character data directly to a file.
The code copy is as follows:
package com.yiibai.iofile;
import java.io.BufferedWriter;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileWriter;
import java.io.IOException;
public class WriteToFileExample {
public static void main(String[] args) {
try {
String content = "This is the content to write into file";
File file = new File("/users/mkyong/filename.txt");
// if file doesn't exists, then create it
if (!file.exists()) {
file.createNewFile();
}
FileWriter fw = new FileWriter(file.getAbsoluteFile());
BufferedWriter bw = new BufferedWriter(fw);
bw.write(content);
bw.close();
System.out.println("Done");
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
}
3. FileOutputStream writes to the file
A file output stream is a byte stream class used to process raw binary data. In order to write data to a file, the data must be converted into bytes and saved to the file. See the complete example below.
The code copy is as follows:
package com.yiibai.io;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
public class WriteFileExample {
public static void main(String[] args) {
FileOutputStream fop = null;
File file;
String content = "This is the text content";
try {
file = new File("c:/newfile.txt");
fop = new FileOutputStream(file);
// if file doesn't exists, then create it
if (!file.exists()) {
file.createNewFile();
}
// get the content in bytes
byte[] contentInBytes = content.getBytes();
fop.write(contentInBytes);
fop.flush();
fop.close();
System.out.println("Done");
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
} finally {
try {
if (fop != null) {
fop.close();
}
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
}
}
//Updated JDK7, for example, uses the new "try resource shutdown" method to easily process files.
package com.yiibai.io;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
public class WriteFileExample {
public static void main(String[] args) {
File file = new File("c:/newfile.txt");
String content = "This is the text content";
try (FileOutputStream fop = new FileOutputStream(file)) {
// if file doesn't exists, then create it
if (!file.exists()) {
file.createNewFile();
}
// get the content in bytes
byte[] contentInBytes = content.getBytes();
fop.write(contentInBytes);
fop.flush();
fop.close();
System.out.println("Done");
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
}