Re: Writing plain text to file

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From: Shankar Unni
Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2006 21:06

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Kevin Dean [TeamB] wrote:
> Raul Lorenzo wrote:
> 
>> I have this piece of code to write a String to a file:
> 
> Try using PrintWriter and the println() method.
> 

To expand on that: you need to write out your text line by line, with 
println(). If you simply concatenate a bunch of lines with "\n" for 
newlines, they won't get translated to the platform newline (\r\n) 
automatically.

The other alternative is that in your code, instead of using a naked 
"\n" when concatenating your strings, you use the platform line 
separator property:

   String platformNewLine = System.getProperty("line.separator");

   String output =
	"this is the first line" + platformNewLine +
	"this is the second line" + platformNewLine +
         ...;

And now you can write out your string using your original code.

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