Writing to files

[Wizard1988]

I am writing a string of text to a file, but I am having problems with getting the text to a new line. I think I have seen how this can be done in C++ where you check the string for "\n" in a loop and then make it write a new line. Does anyone have any ideas about how I can get this done??

Thanks in advace

[prometheuzz]

Here's an example:

import java.io.*;

public class WriteToFile {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        String[] s = {"line 1", "line 2", "line 3"};
        write(s, "out.txt");
    }

    public static void write(String[] lines, String file) {
        try {
        	FileWriter writer = new FileWriter(file);
        	BufferedWriter buffer = new BufferedWriter(writer);
        	for(int i = 0; i < lines.length; i++) {
            	buffer.write(lines[i]);
            	buffer.newLine();
            }
        	buffer.close();
        	writer.close();
        }
		catch(Exception e) { e.printStackTrace(); }
    }
}

Good luck.

[Wizard1988]

I don't know how I could implement this in my program because, what I do is I get a string from a JTextField and I write that out. It is not an array.


Here is my code

import java.awt.*;
import java.io.*;
import javax.swing.*;
import java.awt.event.*;

class Writer extends JFrame
{
	public Writer()
	{
		super("File Writer");
		
		Container holder = getContentPane();
		final JTextArea  text = new JTextArea();
		JButton save = new JButton("Save it");
		
		
		
		holder.setLayout(new BorderLayout());
		holder.add(text, BorderLayout.CENTER);
		holder.add(save, BorderLayout.SOUTH);
		
		save.addActionListener(new ActionListener()
			{
				public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e)
				{
					File outputFile;
					FileWriter out;
					BufferedWriter writer;
					
					JFileChooser chooser = new JFileChooser();
					
					int option = chooser.showSaveDialog(null);
					
					if(option == JFileChooser.APPROVE_OPTION)
					{
						setTitle(chooser.getSelectedFile().toString());
						outputFile = new File(chooser.getSelectedFile().toString());

						try
						{
							out = new FileWriter(outputFile);
							writer = new BufferedWriter(out);
							writer.write(text.getText());
							writer.close();
						}
						catch(Exception exc){}
						
					}
				}
			}
		);
		
		setSize(300,250);
		setVisible(true);
	}
	
	public static void main(String args[])
	{
		Writer  riter = new Writer();
		
	}
}

[mr1yh1]

i guess you want to split your text into strings
you can use StringTokenizer class ( now legacy )
but there is another option java document advice

JTextArea text = new JTextArea();
    text.setText("this is a test");
    String[] result = text.getText().split("\\s");
    for ( int i = 0 ; i < result.length ; i++ ){
      System.out.print(result[i]);
      System.out.println();// writeln() does this..