02 February 2020

Java Write To File Examples

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In this post we will look at five different examples on how to write to a file using Java. The code sinppets check to see if the file exists before writing to the file, otherwise a file is created.

Write to file using BufferedWriter

import java.io.BufferedWriter;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileWriter;
import java.io.IOException;

public class WriteToFile {
    public static void main( String[] args ) {
        try {
            String content = "Content to write to file";
            //Name and path of the file
            File file = new File("writefile.txt");

            if(!file.exists()){
                file.createNewFile();
            }

            FileWriter fw = new FileWriter(file);

            BufferedWriter bw = new BufferedWriter(fw);
            bw.write(content);
            bw.close();

        } catch(IOException ex) {
            System.out.println("Exception occurred:");
            ex.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
}

Note: If we want to append to a file, we need to initialize the FileWriter with the true parameter:

FileWriter fw = new FileWriter(file, true);

Write to file using PrintWriter

import java.io.*;

public class WriteToFile {
    public static void main( String[] args ) {
        try {
            String content = "Content to write to file";
            //Name and path of the file
            File file = new File("writefile.txt");

            if(!file.exists()){
                file.createNewFile();
            }

            FileWriter fw = new FileWriter(file);

            PrintWriter bw = new PrintWriter(fw);
            bw.write(content);
            bw.close();

        } catch(IOException ex) {
            System.out.println("Exception occurred:");
            ex.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
}

Write to file using FileOutputStream

import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;

public class WriteToFile {
    public static void main( String[] args ) {
        try {
            String content = "Content to write to file";
            //Name and path of the file
            File file = new File("writefile.txt");

            if(!file.exists()){
                file.createNewFile();
            }

            FileOutputStream outStream = new FileOutputStream(file);
            byte[] strToBytes = content.getBytes();
            outStream.write(strToBytes);

            outStream.close();

        } catch(IOException ex) {
            System.out.println("Exception occurred:");
            ex.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
}

Write to file using Files class

import java.io.IOException;
import java.nio.file.Files;
import java.nio.file.Path;
import java.nio.file.Paths;

public class WriteToFile {
    public static void main( String[] args ) {
        Path path = Paths.get("writefile.txt");
        String content = "Content to write to file";

        try {
            byte[] bytes = content.getBytes();
            Files.write(path, bytes);
        } catch(IOException ex) {
            System.out.println("Exception occurred:");
            ex.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
}

Write to file using DataOutputStream

import java.io.*;

public class WriteToFile {
    public static void main( String[] args ) {
        String content = "Content to write to file";

        try {
            File file = new File("writefile.txt");

            if(!file.exists()){
                file.createNewFile();
            }

            FileOutputStream fos = new FileOutputStream(file);
            BufferedOutputStream bos = new BufferedOutputStream(fos);

            DataOutputStream dataOutStream = new DataOutputStream(bos);
            dataOutStream.writeUTF(content);
            dataOutStream.close();

        } catch(IOException ex) {
            System.out.println("Exception occurred:");
            ex.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
}

02 February 2020