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 chapter 21 you used 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.