FileWriter in Java

FileWriter creates a Writer that you can use to write to a file. Its most commonly used constructors are shown here:

FileWriter(String filePath)
FileWriter(String filePath, boolean append)

FileWriter(File fileObj)

They can throw an IOException or a SecurityException. Here, filePath is the full path name of a file, and fileObj is a File object that describes the file. If append is true, then output is appended to the end of the file.

Creation of a FileWriter is not dependent on the file already existing. FileWriter will create the file before opening it for output when you create the object. In the case where you attempt to open a read-only file, an IOException will be thrown.

The following example is a character stream version of an example shown earlier when FileOutputStream was discussed. This version creates a sample buffer of characters by first making a String and then using the getChars( ) method to extract the character array equivalent. It then creates three files. The first, file1.txt, will contain every other character from the sample. The second, file2.txt, will contain the entire set of characters. Finally, the third, file3.txt, will contain only the last quarter.

// Demonstrate FileWriter.
import java.io.*;
class FileWriterDemo {
public static void main(String args[]) throws Exception {
String source = "Now is the time for all good men\\n"
+ " to come to the aid of their country\\n"
+ " and pay their due taxes.";
char buffer[] = new char[source.length()];
source.getChars(0, source.length(), buffer, 0);
FileWriter f0 = new FileWriter("file1.txt");
for (int i=0; i < buffer.length; i += 2) {
f0.write(buffer[i]);
}
f0.close();
FileWriter f1 = new FileWriter("file2.txt");
f1.write(buffer);
f1.close();
FileWriter f2 = new FileWriter("file3.txt");
f2.write(buffer,buffer.lengthbuffer.
length/4,buffer.length/4);
f2.close();
}
}