CHAPTER 83 — Writing Text Files

This chapter explains how to create a text file on the hard disk and how to write character data to it.

Chapter Topics:

• Class FileWriter.
• Creating a disk file.
• Closing a disk file.
• The write() method.
• Catching IO exceptions.
• Class BufferedWriter.

In a previous chapter you used command line redirection to write text files. This told the operating system to create a file and to send your program's output to it. In this chapter your program has control of file creation and writes output to it.