Writing a newline to a text file 1

[albin1e4]

I am outputting user input from various JTextFields to a text file. This part works fine.

However, I need to tell the text file to move to a new line when additional user input is appended to the file. Just sending a '\n' isn't working. Right now I have one giant line of text in my file.

Any ideas?

Thanks, Brian

 

[jstreich]

Try println() function of the PrintWriter... \n should work on *nix systems, but \r\n (i think) is the proper ascii chars for a newline in DOS based ASCII files. The println(String) will put the string into the filw with the proper newline chars for the OS.

 

[albin1e4]

println does indeed work

Why wouldn't the FileWriter class include a similar method? This class only includes a write method.

Anybody know the logic?

Brian

 

[jstreich]

In java I/O the writer and readers use a decorator patter that is very useful, but it means that each class adds only a small amount of functionality... A file writter was designed to only the basics of file I/O, and the PrintWriter was given a few more methods so that I/O to text files would be easier. The logic for adding the \n or \r\n is fairly simple, but part of the basics to write to a file. Basically, he reason is because any one giver reader/writer/stream does the barest amount of work... The other thing that I would always have liked to see in the BufferedReader is a readInt, readFloat... but there not there either... So I used to do a lot of Integer.parseInt(), until I got ahold of an ExtractReader class from a Prof.